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Presidents and Their First Ladies, dramatically speaking/ Harry & Bess Truman

Over the past 32 years the husband and wife team William and Sue Wills have appeared together on stage professionally more than 8000 times.  Their programs about Presidents and their First Ladies present the personal side of our first couples. In this program about Harry and Bess Truman,  you learn that from the age of six, Harry loved only one person- Bess.  His string of early business failures could not have foretold his rise to the presidency.  But always in the background working, as a loving partner was The Boss: Bess.  Truman was the president who had to make the momentous decision to drop the first atomic bomb, a decision that hastened the end of WWII.

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