Margaret Truman Daniel

[Jem]

President Truman's daughter dies at 83

By MARGARET STAFFORD, Associated Press Writer

Margaret Truman (left) and her mother look over the shoulder of Harry S. Truman in Kansas City on Nov.

7, 1944 as he makes a chart of election returns. 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, Jan 29, 2008. She was 83

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - 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, January 22. She was 83.

Truman, known as Margaret Truman Daniel in private life, died at a Chicago assisted living facility following a brief illness, according to a statement from the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence. She had been at the facility for the past several weeks and was on a respirator, the library said.

Her father's succession to the presidency in 1945 thrust her into the national spotlight while a college junior. "I feel that I've lived several different lives and that was one of them," she said in 1980. "Some of it was fun, but most of it was not. It was a great view of history being made. "The only thing I ever missed about the White House was having a car and driver," she once said.

Her singing career attracted the barbs of music critics

[joyami]

Holy sh*t, who knew she was still alive?? I didn't.

[TCS]

Thanks for posting Jem. I didn't know she was still alive either!!!! Well, that she was still alive yesterday anyways! Ewww, that didn't sound every good! Sorry! RIP Margaret!