#Truman Library

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Bess Truman, born on February 13, 1885.

The future First Lady loved hats even as a child. According to her best friend, Mary Paxton, Bess “always looked more stylish than anyone else in the crowd…. Bess had more stylish hats than the rest of us did, or she wore them with more style.”

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On May 8th of each year of Lyndon B. Johnson's Presidency, LBJ made sure that he made a phone call to the house at 219 North Delaware Street in Independence, Missouri, where former President Harry S. Truman was living in retirement and celebrating another birthday. Truman would always insist that President Johnson had far more important things to do with his time than call a retired old Missouri politician, and LBJ would insist that he couldn't think of anything more important to do with his time than take a moment to thank Harry Truman for his service to the country.

Truman celebrated 88 birthdays before he died on December 26, 1972, nearly four years after Johnson had left the White House and retired to his ranch in Texas. At the time of Truman's death, LBJ was also a very sick man, but he refused to listen to doctors who urged him not to make the trip to Truman's funeral in Missouri.

When an ailing Lyndon Johnson bowed his head while paying respect before Truman's casket on December 27, 1972, it was the last time many Americans saw LBJ alive. Lyndon Johnson died less than a month later, on January 22, 1973, and was buried in the family graveyard at the LBJ Ranch in Texas almost one month to the day after he stood next to Harry S. Truman's flag-draped casket in Missouri.

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Maria Montez pictured in California in 1948.

Photo from Truman Library, ✨very special thanks to @74paris for sharing!!✨

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Truman Capote's home library

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George, Anthony, and Noah (2025/1996)

📷 Emilio Madrid, Steve Granitz/Wireimage via Getty

Julianna, George, Anthony, and Noah (April 3, 2025)

📷 Emilio Madrid

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Harry S. Truman at Groundbreaking for Truman Library

Collection HST-PHC: Photograph CollectionSeries: Photographs Relating to the Administration, Family, and Personal Life of Harry S. Truman

President Harry Truman smiles for the camera as he digs a shovel into the dirt.  He’s surrounded by a smiling crowd.

The Independence Lions Club donated a gold-plated shovel for former President Harry S. Truman (center, foreground) to use at the Harry S. Truman Library groundbreaking at Slover Park in Independence, Missouri. Members of Local 34 of the American Federation of Musicians played at the event. Others in the background are unidentified. Copied from original photographs loaned to the library by Harry Barth. Originals were returned to Mr. Barth.

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“The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul — desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.”

—𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕒𝕟 ℂ𝕒𝕡𝕠𝕥𝕖, ‘𝔹𝕣𝕖𝕒��𝕗𝕒𝕤𝕥 𝕒𝕥 𝕋𝕚𝕗𝕗𝕒𝕟𝕪’𝕤’

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1000 libby holds finally coming to fruition at once and pelting down on me like rain

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⚠️ TOP SECRET: ⚠️

California State Librarian caught READING on the job!

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This is a studio portrait of Helen Wallace, the first cousin of Bess Truman, ca. 1925, looking fashionable in a fur cape and hat!

[deadpresidents]

"You don't need a memorial to me because I'll be cussed and discussed for the next generation anyway. I'm more interested in this project than I am in anything else. Even [more] than I am in throwing bricks at some people."

-- Former President Harry S. Truman, at a fundraiser luncheon for his Presidential Library at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, New York, June 29, 1953.

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Du musst dein Herz nicht wilden Wesen geben :Je mehr du es ihnen gibst desto stärker werden sie. /Truman Capote

[liyazaki]

to the Karen who crossed out the curse words in a FIRST EDITION copy of In Cold Blood: may you step on every Lego you ever encounter 🖤

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im going to stock up on so much dark chocolate for ramadan

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W. Averell Harriman With Nikita Khrushchev During 1959 Trip to the Soviet Union

Exterior view believed to have been taken in the gardens of the government's guest dacha Ogarevo located west of Moscow, Russia. Nikita Khrushchev is on the left holding a hedgehog found along the path. W. Averell Harriman is on the right and Frol Kozlov and Yuri Zhukov are in the center looking at the hedgehog. Photograph appeared with Harriman article published in Life Magazine, July 13, 1959. Charles W. Thayer accompanied Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Trip visits included Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, etc., as well as areas in Siberia and the Urals, and ended with a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev. There is a 2x2 original negative. Credit: Photographer: Charles W. Thayer

This item was produced or created on June 23, 1959.

The creator compiled or maintained the parent series, Photographs Relating to the Administration, Family, and Personal Life of Harry S. Truman, between 1957–2023.

National Archives and Records Administration. Office of Presidential Libraries. Harry S. Truman Library. (4/1/1985 - 7/31/2011)

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Have you seen this summer's #blockbuster #Movie #Oppenheimer? Recently I had the opportunity to listen to the #PulitzerPrize winning book the movie was based on. #AmericanPrometheus was available on the #Hooplaapp through my local #library #bookreview

American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb,” the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the awesome fire of the sun for his country in time of war. Immediately after Hiroshima, he became the most famous scientist of his generation-one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, the embodiment of modern man…