• Harry S Truman National Historic Site

    Harry S Truman

    National Historic Site Missouri

Bess Truman: Motherhood

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Truman on a horse in 1933. Credit: Truman Library

Although he was an optimist, Harry Truman sometimes became discouraged.  In 1933, he wrote to Bess, “Tomorrow I’ll be forty-nine and for all the good I’ve done the forty might as well be left off….”  Little did he know what his future held.