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Donna McCreary · 02-27-2013, 06:00 PM

Presdient Zachery Taylor was the last president to own slaves while living in the White House. I do not have documentation as to whether or not he brought his own servants with him to Washington.

RJNorton · 03-06-2013, 09:58 AM

Which First Lady wrote:

"Dear Washington, how I love you, with your beautiful, broad, generous streets and blue skies! The sun shines always there for me."

L Verge · 03-06-2013, 10:41 AM

With that description, I would think it has to be a 20th-century First Lady because the streets were not always broad and beautiful. Wild guess - Lady Bird Johnson.

Whoever said it, I have to agree. I know I count myself as a Washingtonian, having been raised on its front porch in Maryland; but it truly is a beautiful city. I spent a summer touring Europe in my single days, and only Vienna, Austria, impressed me as much as D.C.

RJNorton · 03-06-2013, 10:46 AM

Laurie, the reason this quote struck me is exactly as you say...I also would think first of a 20th century First Lady.

Hint #1: The quote comes from a 19th century First Lady.

L Verge · 03-06-2013, 11:09 AM

Post-Civil War?

RJNorton · 03-06-2013, 04:29 PM

Hint #2: She was a First Lady after the Civil War and is buried in New York.

J. Beckert · 03-06-2013, 04:39 PM

Julia Grant?

RJNorton · 03-06-2013, 04:45 PM

You are correct, Joe. Julia included that observation in her memoirs.

RJNorton · 04-18-2013, 08:36 AM

Which First Lady said:

".....in the process I have become a very respectable carpenter."

J. Beckert · 04-18-2013, 08:48 AM

Because she was First Lady when the WH was gutted and remodeled, I'll guess Bess Truman.

RJNorton · 04-18-2013, 08:52 AM

There is a logical answer to this one, Joe, and yours is certainly a logical reply, but it's not her.

Gene C · 04-18-2013, 09:03 AM

Rosalynn Carter with her and Jimmy Carters involvement with Habitat for Humanity?

RJNorton · 04-18-2013, 09:24 AM

Exactly right, Gene! She made the comment in an address at the Riverside Baptist Church in Washington on May 5, 1989.

RJNorton · 04-26-2013, 04:32 AM

Which First Lady wrote, "I should not blame my own heart if I lost all faith in you."

This was written after she found out her husband was seeing another woman.

Gene C · (This post was last modified: 04-26-2013 06:19 AM by Gene C.)

How about a multiple choice selection with e)all of the above the correct answer?

Hillary Clinton? Jackie Kennedy? Eliza Johnson? Florence Harding?

Eleanor Roosevelt, my final answer