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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 05-16-2013 08:44 AM
Kudos, Laurie! In Feb.2009 M.O. touched the Queen's back, this was and is against Royal etiquette. The yellow press was "not amused".
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Gene C - 05-16-2013 08:45 AM
Oh, and it had nothing to do with the exchange of Christmas gifts? What 87 year old Queen wouldn't want an iPod for Christmas?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 05-16-2013 09:04 AM
Oh, don't underestimate her. Maybe she's fond of gadgetry. Did you know that she was trained as a car mechanic during WW II?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Laurie Verge - 05-16-2013 03:17 PM
I will probably be in the minority here, but I am a great fan of Queen Elizabeth II and find her the epitome of the type of person who commands and gets respect because of the way she earns it. I suspect that, if we really knew everything about her life, we would find that she has dealt with it in a most admirable way. I wish we could say the same for some of our leaders.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 05-18-2013 09:12 AM
Laurie, I agree, and I take my hat off to her sense of duty.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 05-26-2013 04:32 AM
Which First Lady made this statement about aging?
"I'm growing old willingly; I grow old not unwillingly."
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 05-26-2013 07:21 AM
COOL statement! (Sure it wasn't Margaret Thatcher or Scarlett O'Hara?) Nancy Reagan?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - L Verge - 05-26-2013 07:29 AM
Eleanor Roosevelt?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 05-26-2013 07:34 AM
Good morning, Eva and Laurie. I am sorry, but all guesses are incorrect.
Hint #1: It was a 19th century First Lady. She made the comment to a pastor.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 05-26-2013 07:57 AM
Oh, I really suspected hidden defiant irony...
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 05-26-2013 02:21 PM
Hint #2: She was born in 1803.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 05-26-2013 03:31 PM
Was Mrs. Buchanan this distinguished lady?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - L Verge - 05-26-2013 03:42 PM
Sarah Polk?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 05-26-2013 03:58 PM
Kudos, Laurie. You got it. Sarah Polk made her comment about aging to Reverend Peschau. Reverend Peschau had been a former pastor of the German Lutheran Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - L Verge - 05-26-2013 04:11 PM
I love that minister's name, Peschau. I don't know how he pronounced it, but when I was growing up, the old-timers would use the term "pe-shaw" when they thought someone was not telling the truth.