Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
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05-18-2024, 08:12 AM
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Lucretia Garfield?
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05-18-2024, 08:22 AM
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Nope, not Lucretia Garfield.
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05-18-2024, 02:38 PM
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Rosalynn Carter?
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05-18-2024, 03:08 PM
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
This is a wild guess, but I'm going to say Julia Grant.
Best Rob Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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05-18-2024, 04:04 PM
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Nope, it was not Rosalynn Carter. It also was not Julia Grant.
Hint #1: Take a look at the punctuation in the quote itself. |
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05-18-2024, 05:17 PM
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Guess based on your hint. Abigail Adams writing to husband John?
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05-18-2024, 05:40 PM
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
With the comma it has to be Mary Lincoln.
Best Rob Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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05-19-2024, 03:09 AM
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Excellent, Rob. Mary was known for her overuse of commas in her letters. Mary used this sentence in a letter to her daughter-in-law, Mary Harlan Lincoln, circa 1870. Source: Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean H. Baker (New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1987), p.304.
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05-19-2024, 10:16 AM
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
(05-19-2024 03:09 AM)RJNorton Wrote: Excellent, Rob. Mary was known for her overuse of commas in her letters. Mary used this sentence in a letter to her daughter-in-law, Mary Harlan Lincoln, circa 1870. Source: Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean H. Baker (New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1987), p.304. The quote: "I think the doctors would especially like to keep one in bed. The love of money, is the root of all evil." The quote itself seems to be self-hypocritical (if, that is not being redundant). Who loved to spend money more than Mary Lincoln? If it were not for the clue, then logically, the choice of Mary Lincoln would have been the last guess made, as limited by the number of presidents. "So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch |
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05-22-2024, 09:57 AM
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No googling please.
Which First Lady said: "No one is immune. Families really need help to understand it and cope with it." |
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05-22-2024, 11:21 AM
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Barbara Bush
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05-22-2024, 12:11 PM
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Nancy Reagan? I'm thinking she said this relative to her "Just say no" to drugs initiative.
"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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05-22-2024, 12:40 PM
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Good try, Anita, but Joe got it. However, it was not a reference to "Just Say No to Drugs."
The quote comes from Nancy Reagan in the October 2, 1995, edition of Newsweek. She was referring to Alzheimer's disease. |
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05-25-2024, 03:24 AM
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
No googling please.
Which First Lady made the following comment about surfing? "Surf-riding at Waikiki Beach is a great game...when you see a beautiful, slim, brown native, naked save for short swimming trunks, come gliding down a high, white breaker, poised like Mercury, erect on a single narrow plank - it looks delightfully exhilarating." |
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05-25-2024, 10:03 AM
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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
(05-25-2024 03:24 AM)RJNorton Wrote: No googling please. Nancy Reagan? Didn't she marry a movie star? "So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch |
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