Charlie Ross

Charles Griffith Ross (1885–1950) was the White House Press Secretary for President Harry Truman from 1945-1950. Before that, Ross was a Pulitzer Prize winning-journalist. Ross and Truman were old friends from Missouri.

Charlie Ross in The Man With the Iron Heart
As Press Secretary, Charlie Ross was often in the eye of the storm of controversy that surrounded the Truman Administration's decision to continue to occupy Germany after World War II.