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First Family Stories
By Clifton Truman Daniel
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MY MOTHER, Margaret Truman Daniel, wasn&#;t much impressed by politics and politicians.
This was almost certainly a case of familiarity breeding contempt. Titles and position meant little to her, even when she was sitting in the White House.
During the early s, while she pursued a singing career in New York, Mom kept an apartment at the Carlyle Hotel at the corner of Madison and 76th. My grandparents stayed there a few times, as well.
When Mom married Dad in , the newlyweds bought an apartment a whole block east, at 76th and Park. The living room windows faced 76th Street. If you put your face near the glass and looked west, you could easily see the front door of the hotel.
On a visit to New York early in his presidency, John F. Kennedy stayed at the Carlyle. According to Mom, she recommended it. Parked out front during his stay was the phalanx of large
motorcycles that accompanied the presidential motorcade.
One warm afternoon, Mom was sitting in the living room, reading, with the window open to the breeze. Down the block, President Kennedy prepared to leave for an appointment. He was notorious for running behind. Still, the Secret Service agen
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Margaret Truman Daniel, the president’s daughter whose achievements as a concert singer, radio and TV host, and author of bestselling biographies and mysteries won her renown in her own right, died Tuesday in Chicago. Daniel was
Her death was announced by her son Clifton Daniel.
Daniel died after a brief illness, according to a statement from the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Mo. She had been living in an assisted living facility for the past several weeks and was on a respirator, the library said.
Many Americans first knew Margaret Truman as the young woman with blue-green eyes, ash-blond hair, flawless complexion and dimpled cheeks who was the only child of Harry S. Truman, the somewhat obscure vice president from Missouri who ascended to the presidency on the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in April , as World War II neared its end.
Before long, they were following her career as the aspiring singer whose doting father sprang to her defense with a memorably scorching letter to a Washington music critic who had the temerity to belittle her talent.
In time there was her headline-making marriage to a dashing newspaperman, Clifton Daniel Jr., who eventually became the managing editor of the New York Times, and the birth of their f
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