She was christened Mary Margaret Truman, Mary after her aunt, Mary Jane Truman, and Margaret for her maternal grandmother, Margaret Gates Wallace. KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) - Margaret Truman, the only child of former President Harry S. Truman who became a concert singer , actress, radio and TV personality and mystery writer, died Tuesday. She made her first outdoor appearance as a singer on August 23, 1947 in the Hollywood Bowl before a crowd of approximately 20,000 people with Eugene Ormandy conducting the orchestra. Graduated in 1942, she then enrolled at George Washington University and in 1944, the year her father was elected Vice President, she was awarded the Associate of Arts degree. I do not believe that hard work goes astray, and I know that I had worked. The Truman incident. It said, in part, “I have just read your lousy review . Margaret Truman, daughter of President and Mrs. Harry S. Truman, was born on February 17, 1924, in Independence, Missouri. Admirer Datie Thorton, watching Margaret Truman and E. Clifton Daniel Jr's. But Paul Hume, the music critic of The Washington Post, while praising her personality, said that “she cannot sing very well,” added that “she is flat a good deal of the time” and concluded that she had no “professional finish.”Mrs. His accessibility and his off-the-cuff answers on these “constitutionals” only added to his image as a down-to-earth leader.Margaret Truman Daniel, the president’s daughter whose achievements as a concert singer, radio and television host, and author of best-selling biographies and mysteries won her renown in her own right, died on Tuesday in Chicago.
On May 27, 1955, substituting for Edward R. Murrow on his television show "Person to Person," she interviewed her parents.
When she was 16 years old, she began taking voice lessons in Independence from Mrs. Thomas J. Strickler, a family friend. ‘I can handle him.’ ”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 four sons.As the decades passed, Americans by the hundreds of thousands knew Mrs. Daniel, too, as Margaret Truman, the author of 32 books, including biographies of both her parents and 23 mystery novels in her popular “Capital Crime Series,” all set in and around Washington.The author was born in Independence, Mo., on Feb. 17, 1924, to the former Bess Wallace and Harry S. Truman, a county judge. As the only child of the President of a great world power at a cataclysmic time, I will certainly be expected to make some comment on this man who will belong to history to evoke him in special ways, available only to a daughter.”After Mr. Truman was elected to the United States Senate in 1934, the family spent half the year in Independence, where Margaret attended public school, and the rest of the year in Washington, where she was a student at Gunston Hall, a boarding school for girls. On her eighth birthday, instead of the electric train she longed for, she was given a baby grand piano.In her 1981 book “Letters from Father: The Truman Family’s Personal Correspondence” (Arbor House), she recalled: “Because of my father, I was more easily able to obtain important engagements. Meanwhile, her father went in search of a tall White House butler, planning to have him don a top hat and knock at the door in the middle of the night.After that, in her first appearance on a concert stage, she sang before 15,000 people with the 90-piece Hollywood Bowl Symphony, led by her favorite conductor, Eugene Ormandy. Her father, who had been President since April 12, 1945, gave the commencement address and presented her with her diploma.From 1977 until her death, Mrs. Daniel served as secretary to the board of trustees of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation created by Congress in 1975 to award scholarships to college students planning careers in Government. Daniel’s foray into mysteries was an outgrowth of her years as a devotee of the genre. That’s why she writes those murder mysteries; so she can kill them all off, one at a time.”