Bess Truman

Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman (1885–1982), widely known as Bess Truman, was the wife of Harry Truman and First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953.

Bess Truman in The Man With the Iron Heart
Bess Truman watched her husband struggle to keep the country's support for the ongoing occupation of Germany after World War II.

During a speech in San Francisco in 1947, Diana McGraw urged her supporters to keep fighting and to send Harry Truman, Bess Truman, and their daughter Margaret packing in 1948.