Bess Truman's Marriage Was DARKER Than The White House Ever Admitted

1955. Harry Truman came home to find Bess feeding fifty years of their private letters into the fireplace. He told her to think of history. She told him she already had. America remembered the Trumans as one of Washington’s simplest love stories — Harry calling her “the Boss,” Bess smiling beside him through war, elections, and the presidency. It wasn’t that simple. She had opposed the political decision that eventually put him in the White House. She became furious when the most consequential decision of his presidency was made without her. She spent months at a time escaping Washington. And when it was finally over, she destroyed almost every record of what she had actually thought. It began long before Harry Truman became president.