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Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
05-10-2013, 11:38 AM
Post: #166
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
It was indeed Barbara Bush. She made the comment about things that should not be reported at the Former First Ladies Forum at the Kennedy Center in Washington on March 9, 1998. The comment about the press not getting anything right was made at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner in New York on October 19, 1989.

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05-12-2013, 03:52 AM
Post: #167
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Happy Mother's Day! A first lady said the following:

"It's the best thing I have ever done. Being a mother is what I think made me the person I am."

Who said that?
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05-12-2013, 06:51 AM
Post: #168
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Sounds like the wife of one of the Bushs, maybe Barbara Bush again.
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05-12-2013, 07:19 AM
Post: #169
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That sounds like something a more recent 1st Lady would say. I agree with Eva, I can picture Laura Bush or even Jackie Kennedy saying that. I'll go with Laura Bush

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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05-12-2013, 07:44 AM
Post: #170
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Gene, it was Jackie Kennedy. The quote is from the book Jackie After Jack: Portrait of the Lady.
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05-12-2013, 08:02 AM
Post: #171
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Now for a different view. Which First Lady said:

"It is horrible to be a man. But the grinding misery of being a woman between the upper and nether millstone of household cares and training children is almost as bad. To be half civilized with some aspirations for enlightenment, and obliged to spend the largest part of the time the victim of young barbarians keeps one in a perpetual ferment."
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05-12-2013, 08:39 AM
Post: #172
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Abigail Adams?
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05-12-2013, 08:43 AM
Post: #173
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Good guess, Laurie, but it was not her.
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05-12-2013, 10:06 AM
Post: #174
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Working only on the misery that drips off that statement, I'll say Mrs. Franklin Pierce.

"There are few subjects that ignite more casual, uninformed bigotry and condescension from elites in this nation more than Dixie - Jonah Goldberg"
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05-12-2013, 10:59 AM
Post: #175
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Not her, Joe. But you are in the right century.
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05-12-2013, 11:36 AM
Post: #176
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The Lincolns' were the first children in the White House, so I'd suggest so. afterwards, Mrs Garfield?
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05-12-2013, 11:39 AM
Post: #177
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Kudos, Eva! That is correct. Mrs. Garfield wrote this in a letter to her husband on June 5, 1877.
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05-16-2013, 06:59 AM
Post: #178
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Which First Lady displeased the British Monarchy by one single action in the blink of an eye?
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05-16-2013, 08:07 AM
Post: #179
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I am going to guess Mary Lincoln, without knowing what her specific action was.
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05-16-2013, 08:15 AM
Post: #180
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Michelle Obama?
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