Books written by authors with ties to Kansas City: The grandson of Charlie Ross, Harry Truman’s high school classmate and press secretary.

Charlie Ross worked night & day to serve him, helped guide him on matters of high policy, wrote or edited most of his speeches, was a calming, steadying influence on impetuous Harry Truman.

Looking up, Harry Truman saw five White House press photographers taking pictures. He gave them a big wave and a grin. But Charles G. Ross, the President’s long-faced press secretary, did not smile.

The reverence for Old Glory that inspired Flag Day came decades after the lifetime of the woman often credited with sewing the first United States national flag ...

Every day at Charlie Binaggio's First District Democratic Club on Truman Road in Kansas City, boon seekers ran a gauntlet of stony-faced hoodlums, sought their favors of the gimlet-eyed man ...

On Tuesday’s edition of The Five, guest co-host Rosanna Scotto told viewers that President Harry Truman tried to buy Greenland in 1867. Born in 1884, Truman served as president from 1945 to 1953.

The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group will begin returning to their respective homeports following a nine-month deployment.

Inaction only emboldens the USS Harry S. Truman’s enemies, which in this case include gravity and potentially a giant ocean beast.

Said beaming Harry Truman: “It certainly is a most happy evening.” The Old Man, Too. While the ladies whooped it up, the President launched into a few appropriate, off-the-cuff remarks.

The section was made up of Emmett Starch Jr. and Charles Hawkins. Their shrill cries greeted President and Mrs. Truman and Miss Margaret Truman, Attorney General Tom Clark and Federal Judge R.E ...

Harry Truman did what not even Franklin Roosevelt had had the temerity to do. He ordered Douglas MacArthur to shut up. The President's summary order arrived in Tokyo shortly after midnight ...