Lincoln Discussion Symposium

Pretty close, Joe, but Rob got it. It was white according to Elizabeth Keckly. Good job, Rob.

No googling please.

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."

My mum?

Is this First Lady still living?

No, she is not living.

It sounds too old for a 20th-century First Lady, but if it's a 19th-century First Lady, there are so many to choose from. Wild guess, Ida McKinley?

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Rob

Not her, Rob. It was a 19th century First Lady.

Abigail Adams ?

Not her, Michael. Her husband served after the Civil War.

Rutherford Hayes wife, Lucy ?
(I googled his wife's name)

Sounds like a woman left home alone with the kids a lot. Julia Grant?

Gene and Joe...you are both close, but not correct.

How about Garfield's wife (I can't remember her name)?

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Rob

Kudos, Rob. That is correct. Lucretia Garfield wrote this in a letter to her husband on June 5, 1877.

What favor did former President Fillmore ask of President Lincoln?

No Googling please.