Reading festive stories to the children, Michelle Obama and her daughters were keeping up a tradition of visiting with sick kids during the Christmas season started by Bess Truman.

米歇尔-奥巴马和两个女儿还给孩子们读了节日故事。在圣诞季探访患病儿童的传统始于贝丝-杜鲁门。

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Truman and his wife Bess are buried in the courtyard.

杜鲁门和他的妻子贝丝是埋在院子里。

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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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The dinner plates are from the Truman China set, which was selected by First Lady Bess Truman in 1951 and is the first state china service to feature the Presidential Coat of Arms as redesigned by President Harry Truman in 1945.

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