Our campground is an easy walk to the Park headquarters to hear about Truman, and then on to his house for a tour. Harry was poor but Bess came from money (I can think offhand of several political marriages like this: John Kerry, John McCain, Lyndon Johnson), and on their marriage they moved to Bess’ mom’s house, which when it was built in the 1800s was the finest home in Independence. His mother-in-law shared the home with them, and when she died (while he was President) the home became theirs, the first home he ever owned. Great tour, more for what it said about Truman than necessarily about the house itself, although it is nice. (Truman’s hometown was particularly interesting to us, as we both recently read and liked McCullough’s biography of Truman.)
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