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Mary Margaret Truman Daniel (born February 17, 1924 in Independence, Missouri) is an American writer and the author of biographies, books on the White House and several best-selling mystery novels.

Margaret is the daughter of 33rd president Harry S. Truman and his wife, Bess Truman. She was christened Mary Margaret Truman. Mary, for her aunt, Mary Jane Truman, and Margaret, for her maternal grandmother, Margaret Gates Wallace. From childhood, she was called Margaret.

In the 1940s, she aspired to be a singer. After graduating from George Washington University and undergoing some classical vocal training, she debuted in a vocal recital on the radio in March 1947. After a performance in December 1950, Washington Post music critic Paul Hume gave her an unfavorable review, resulting in an incident in which President Truman threatened to beat the reviewer calling Hume an "eight ulcer man on four ulcer pay." Many fathers wrote in support of her father's outburst. Despite the bad press, she performed on the stage, radio and television well into the 1950s.

In 1944, she christened the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63), named for her home state. When the ship was recommissioned in 1991, she was a featured speaker at the ceremony.

Truman married New York Times reporter, and later editor, Clifton Daniel (1912 - 2000) on April 21, 1956, at Trinity Episcopal Church in Independence, Missouri, her mother's birthplace. Their sons are: Clifton Truman Daniel (born 1957), William Wallace Daniel (1959 - 2000), who was killed in a taxi cab collision in New York City, Harrison Gates Daniel (born 1963), and Thomas Washington Daniel (born 1966). Clifton has written and spoken publicly about his grandfather and his experience as the grandchild of a president.

Shortly before her father's death in 1972, Daniel, under her maiden name, published Harry S Truman, a critically acclaimed full length biography of her father. The book extensively used sources from Presidential papers in the Truman Library. Daniel followed this book with a volume of her mother's life, Bess W. Truman, which covered her mother's, as well as her father's life from an insider, micro perspective as opposed to a macro perspective taken in Harry S Truman.

Daniel also authored books on White House first ladies and pets, the history of the White House and its inhabitants, as well as a critically acclaimed series of fictional murder mysteries set in various well-known locations in and around Washington, D.C. Now in her 80s, she continues to write and publish regularly.

At the age of 82, Daniel is the second earliest surviving child of an American president, only younger than John Eisenhower, and continues to reside in her Park Avenue home in Manhattan. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum. Mrs. Daniel is also on the Board of Governors for the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.

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