Margaret Truman has died. (Only child of President Harry S. Truman)

Published: 1/30/08, 6:45 AM EDT
By The Associated Press
(AP) - Louisa Horton Hill


KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Margaret Truman, the only child of former President Harry S. Truman and a concert singer, actress, radio and TV personality, and mystery writer, has died. She was 83.

Truman, known as Margaret Truman Daniel in private life, died at a Chicago assisted living center on Tuesday after a brief illness, according to Susan Medler, a spokeswoman for the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence. She had been at the center for the past several weeks and was on a respirator, the library said.

Her father's succession to the presidency in 1945 thrust her into the national spotlight while a college junior.

Her singing career attracted the barbs of music critics - even the embarrassment of having her father threaten one reviewer. But she found a fulfilling professional and personal life in New York City, where she met her husband, journalist Clifton Daniel, who later became managing editor of The New York Times. They married in 1956.

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was his LTTE to respond to a critic who had written a very unflattering review of his daughter's piano concert. Harry Truman was a true common man.

She would puncture the pompous and laugh at the supercilious Washington scene. R.I.P nice lady.