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Margaret Truman’s summer rental home in Sands Point has been placed on the market. (Nicole Eskanazy)
A photograph of newspaper clippings hung inside the Sands Point home where Margaret Truman spent a summer on Long Island. (Nicole Eskanazy)
PORT WASHINGTON, NY The sprawling colonial set on a hill overlooking the bay in Sands Point where journalist Margaret Truman spent one summer on Long Island has been listed for $1.7 million.
The fact that the home once was rented by Truman is very interesting to realtor Nicole Eskanazy of Douglas Elliman Real Estate. So many people ask me, Who s Margaret Truman? and I say, Are you serious? she laughed.
Harry Trumanâs Christmas Story (Bah Humbug)
Harry Trumanâs Christmas Story (Bah Humbug)
Presidentâs 1945 Christmas Matched Mood of Stressed Nation Share this story Published December 16th, 2020 at 6:00 AM Above image credit: On the day after Christmas in 1945, President Harry Truman emerged from
his Independence home bearing gifts for his cousins across the street. His smile
suggested little of the tension inside the Truman home during the holiday. (Courtesy | Harry S. Truman Library & Museum)
He was the leader of the free world and he would be home for Christmas.
Thatâs what Harry Truman, alone in Washington, decided. In the earliest days of presidential air travel, he authorized a dicey flight through winter storms to Independence on Dec. 25, 1945.