Margaret Truman
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Oct 16, 2015 · Bess Truman refused to let Jews into her house, even Jews whom she knew and may have liked. She remarked, “no Jew ever entered my mother’s house and no Jew will ever enter my house”. Harry Truman...
May 8, 2014 · In private, Mrs. Wallace evidently questioned her son-in-law’s qualifications to be president and needled him about Israel (the historian Alan L. Berger calls her “a confirmed anti-Semite”)....
Jul 17, 2003 · Complaining about a call from Henry Morgenthau, the former Treasury secretary who was head of the United Jewish Appeal, Truman fumed about a request to pressure Britain, then in charge of...
Oct 1, 2018 · Harry Truman was anti-Semitic. His best friend was Eddie Jacobson. Truman openly said his wife Bess, never let a Jew (even Jacobson) cross the threshold of their house.
Nov 1, 1982 · Bess Truman, who died last week at 97, went to Washington a Mid-western housewife who had lived all her life under the same roof with her mother. She did not smoke or drink or swear. She liked...
- William A. Henry III
This tension -- between supporting Harry’s career and her sometime overt antipathy towards politics and public life -- marked Bess Truman’s life until she and her husband left the White House in 1953. Never, though, did she fail to support her husband in public and she did much in their private lives to help him become a political success.
Former President Harry S. Truman said yesterday that anti‐Semitism in the United States was “as grave a challenge to our sense of fairness and morality” as discrimination against Negroes.
