Margaret Truman Daniel, the daughter of the formers US President Harry S. Truman, died today in Chicago, the Truman Library announced. According to library director Michael Devine, Margaret Truman died form complications from an infection contracted recently. She was 83.

Born on February 17, 1924, in Independence, Mo, Margaret Truman graduated from George Washington University in 1946.

In 1945, her father, Harry S. Truman became the 33rd president of the United States, after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

After graduation which included a performance at Carnegie Hall on November 27, 1949. A few years later, she turned her considerable talents first to broadcasting.

In January 1953 when her father left the White House, she moved to New York City to continue her work with the National Broadcasting Company, with which she had signed a contract in February 1951. On May 27, 1955, substituting for Edward R. Murrow on his television show "Person to Person," she interviewed her parents. In 1955 and 1956, she acted as hostess on a radio program called "Weekday."

Also in 1956, she published her first book, “Souvenir: Margaret Truman's Own Story”. That same year, Margaret married Clifton Daniel, then assistant to the foreign news editor of The New York Times. The Daniels had four children: Clifton Truman, William Wallace (died September 4, 2000), Harrison Gates, and Thomas Washington. The Daniels enjoyed five grandchildren.

In February 1965, she started her first daily television show as co-host on a half-hour special events program broadcast live from Philadelphia.

"I've had three or four different careers," she told an interviewer in 1989, according to the Associated Press. "I consider being a wife and mother a career. I have great respect for women — both those who go out and do their thing and those who stay at home. I think those who stay at home have a lot more courage than those who go out and get a job."

Following President Truman's death, Margaret Truman Daniel became the honorary co-chair of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute, the nonprofit partner of her father's presidential library, and a governing board member of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.

The author of 23 novels (Capital Crimes series) and nine books of non-fiction, including the definitive biography of her mother, Bess W. Truman, Mrs. Daniel had been one of the eldest surviving children of an American president, second only to John Eisenhower.