Apart from Bess Truman, Vogue has photographed the wife of every American president since 1929 when President Herbert Hoover's wife, Lou Henry Hoover, was featured.

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There is a story that a friend of Bess Truman once asked her why she did not get her husband, Harry, to stop saying manure so frequently.

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Harry Truman, late in life, caught his wife, Bess, burning their letters to each other.

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