Margaret Truman Daniel: 1924-2008

Margaret Truman Daniel speaks during the recommissioning ceremonies for the Iowa-class battleship in San Francisco Feb. 10, 1986. The only child of former President Harry S. Truman became a concert singer, actress, radio and TV personality and mystery writer. She died Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008, at 83.

Margaret Truman Daniel appears on a NBC television show on Jan. 6, 1977. With Mike Wallace, Truman was co-host of a daily radio talk show on the NBC network and had her own nationally syndicated interview program for eight years.

Margaret Truman Daniels listens during a press conference in Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 12, 1972. The only child of former President Harry S. Truman became a concert singer, actress, radio and TV personality and mystery writer. She died Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. She was 83

Former President Harry S. Truman and his wife, Bess, are greeted by their daughter, Margaret, and her husband, Clifton Daniel, on arrival in New York on Sept. 8, 1957. The Daniels married in 1956 and Clifton later became managing editor of The New York Times. The couple had four sons.

Former President Harry Truman kisses his daughter, Margaret, when she greeted him on arrival in New York to make a television appearance in 1954. Her singing career attracted the barbs of music critics - even the embarrassment of having her father call one review "poppycock." "Some day I hope to meet you," the then-President wrote to the critic. "When that happens you'll need a new nose."

Margaret Truman keeps in step with comedian Jimmy Durante, left, and his partner, Eddie Jackson, as they rehearse a bit in Los Angeles, March 14, 1952. Her father's succession to the presidency in 1945 thrust her into the national spotlight while a college junior.

Margaret Truman smiles happily in her dressing room after her concert appearance in Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., Dec. 8, 1950, when she sang before her parents, President and Mrs. Truman, and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, who were in the audience. Her father's succession to the presidency in 1945 thrust her into the national spotlight while a college junior.

President Truman drops his ballot in a box while his daughter Margaret awaits her turn to vote in Independence, Mo., on Nov. 5, 1946. Margaret Truman Daniel, a longtime resident of New York City, was also the author of mystery novels, many of them set in Washington D.C.; books on the White House; and biographies, including books on her father and her mother, Bess W. Truman.

Margaret Truman, left, and her mother look over the shoulder of Harry S. Truman in Kansas City on Nov. 7, 1944, as he makes a chart of election returns. The Truman Library said Margaret who died on Jan. 29, 2008, at age 83, was one of the eldest surviving children of an American president, second only to John Eisenhower, the son of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower.