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Document 176183

BESS W. TRUMAN and MARGARET TRUMAN
The First Lady and her daughter sign a program for one of Margaret's concerts.
Program signed: "Bess W. Truman" as First Lady and "Margaret Truman", 16p, 6x9. "Ruth Seufert/Concerts/Presents/Margaret Truman/Soprano/March 21, 1950/Season, 1949-1950 Music Hall", Kansas City, Missouri. Margaret Truman's performance included the aria "Dove Sono" from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and selections from Schumann and Schubert. The concert was sold out four months in advance. Later that year, on the evening of December 5, 1950, President Truman, his wife Bess and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee attended a musical concert at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. All 3,500 seats were full as Margaret Truman, the President and First Lady's daughter, came on stage to begin her performance. Her selections included works of Schumann and Shubert and the aria from The Marriage of Figaro, THE SAME PIECES LISTED IN THE PROGRAM OFFERED HERE AND SUNG BY HER NINE MONTHS EARLIER. She was called back on stage for four encores. The next morning, when President Truman picked up his "Washington Post" to read a review of his daughter's singing performance, he was livid. Paul Hume, the paper's music critic, panned the performance. In response, President Truman wrote to Hume, in part: "Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!" The incident is a famous one in the annals of Truman's "Give 'em hell, Harry" history. Fine condition.

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