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Margaret Truman

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    (February 17, 1924-January 29, 2008)
    Born in Independence, Missouri
    Birth name was Mary Margaret Truman
    Daughter of President Harry S Truman
    Had a singing and acting career before taking up writing
    Wrote the biographies 'Harry S. Truman' (1973) and 'Bess W. Truman' (1986)
    Author of a series of murder mysteries set in Washington, DC ('Murder in the White House,' 'Murder on Capitol Hill,' 'Murder in the Smithsonian,' etc.)

Why she might be annoying:

    The National Potato Growers Association complained to the White House after she told a waiter to hold the potatoes because she was dieting.
    After critic Paul Hume said that she sang flat, Harry wrote, 'I have never met you, but if I do you'll need a new nose and plenty of beefsteak and perhaps a supporter below.'
    In a classic example of damning with faint praise, Bess Truman said, 'Of course we were very proud of her -- more because she had nerve enough to do it than of her performance.'
    She described herself and her husband as 'puritans among the fleshpots.'
    Her mysteries were (probably) ghostwritten.

Why she might not be annoying:

    Hume noted she was 'extremely attractive on the stage.'
    She later commented, 'Because my father was the President, I had to be not better than average but better than the best.'
    The biographies she wrote about her parents were critically praised.
    She was married to New York Times editor Clifton Daniel for 44 years.
    The year her husband died, her son William was fatally struck by a taxi (2000).

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 80 Votes: 56.25% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 9 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 19 Votes: 47.37% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 11 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 100 Votes: 68.00% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 39 Votes: 51.28% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 157 Votes: 38.22% Annoying