Former U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill is this year's winner of the Truman Good Neighbor Award. McCaskill, a Democrat, represented Missouri in the Senate for 12 years and was defeated last fall in a bid for a third term. She also was a state legislator, Jackson County legislator, Jackson County prosecutor and Missouri state auditor. The Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award Foundation grew out of an annual birthday luncheon that Truman's friends organized after he left the White House in 1953. In 1973, the year after he died, the first Good Neighbor Award was given to former U...
