![]() ![]() Three days later, Truman, back in Washington, wrote his wife a letter: “You can never appreciate what it means to come home as I did the other evening after doing at least one hundred things I didn’t want to do and have the only person in the world whose approval and good opinion I value look at me like I’m something the cat dragged in. As far as I’m concerned, you might as well have stayed in Washington.’ ” Here are hilarious stories of Teddy Roosevelts rambunctious children tossing spitballs at presidential portraits and a heartbreaking account of the tragedy that befell President Coolidges young son John. I guess you couldn’t think of any more reasons to stay away. In The Presidents House, Margaret Truman takes us behind the scenes as she reveals what it feels like to live in the White House. She wrote: “In the privacy of their bedroom, the conversation went something like this: ‘So you’ve finally arrived. Truman had little sympathy when he arrived, his daughter said. Newspapers criticized the President for risking the flight, but Mrs. Truman stayed in Washington for business, flying to Missouri on Christmas Day in bad weather. “All of these negative feelings came to a boil at the end of December, 1945, when we went home for Christmas,” Daniel said. Mother is barely able to muster a smile.” “There is a picture showing mother and me as the final count was announced” at the Democratic convention which nominated Truman for vice president in 1944, she wrote. She was never enthusiastic about political life, Daniel said. ![]()
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