In 1949, Congress approved a $5.4 million Project to gut the building in its entirety, replacing its interior while retaining its historic facade. This event, along with others, made the Presidential family and its aides realize that serious measures were required to save the historic building. The situation was so bad that, in June 1948, one of the legs of First Daughter Margaret Truman’s piano fell right through a floor board of her second-floor sitting room. What’s more is that the White House’s foundations were sinking, walls were peeling away and disused water and gas pipes were weighing down the building and making it unsustainable.
Chandeliers in the house were observed swaying for no apparent reason, and floors moved underneath people’s feet when stepped on.Īll of the above resulted in a structural investigation being conducted on the building, revealing haphazard retrofitting, fire hazards and a second floor that was on the verge of collapsing. Not only was it drafty and creaky, it was downright unsafe. To his surprise and dismay, the house had serious problems.
Truman, moved into the White House in 1945. This included Margaret Truman and her piano.The 33rd President of the United States, Harry S. Margaret Truman in The Man With the Iron Heart Īt a 1947 speech in San Francisco, Diana McGraw exhorted her supporters to throw the Trumans out of the White House the following year. President Harry Truman privately mourned their deaths while continuing to prosecute the war with renewed determination. Both Margaret and her mother were in the White House at the time of the bombing, and it and the surrounding area was rendered a glassy wasteland.
Margaret Truman (1924-1952) and her mother Bess were killed by the atomic bomb the Soviet Union dropped on Washington, DC in May 1952. She was the only child of Harry Truman, the 33rd President of the United States, and his wife Bess. Mary Margaret Truman-Daniel (FebruJanuary 29, 2008) was an American singer who later became a successful writer of mysteries and non-fiction.
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