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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Steve - 05-18-2024 08:12 AM
Lucretia Garfield?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 05-18-2024 08:22 AM
Nope, not Lucretia Garfield.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Anita - 05-18-2024 02:38 PM
Rosalynn Carter?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Rob Wick - 05-18-2024 03:08 PM
This is a wild guess, but I'm going to say Julia Grant.
Best
Rob
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 05-18-2024 04:04 PM
Nope, it was not Rosalynn Carter. It also was not Julia Grant.
Hint #1: Take a look at the punctuation in the quote itself.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Anita - 05-18-2024 05:17 PM
Guess based on your hint. Abigail Adams writing to husband John?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Rob Wick - 05-18-2024 05:40 PM
With the comma it has to be Mary Lincoln.
Best
Rob
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 05-19-2024 03:09 AM
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.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - David Lockmiller - 05-19-2024 10:16 AM
(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.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 05-22-2024 09:57 AM
No googling please.
Which First Lady said:
"No one is immune. Families really need help to understand it and cope with it."
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Anita - 05-22-2024 11:21 AM
Barbara Bush
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - J. Beckert - 05-22-2024 12:11 PM
Nancy Reagan? I'm thinking she said this relative to her "Just say no" to drugs initiative.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 05-22-2024 12:40 PM
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.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 05-25-2024 03:24 AM
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."
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - David Lockmiller - 05-25-2024 10:03 AM
(05-25-2024 03:24 AM)RJNorton Wrote: 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."
Nancy Reagan? Didn't she marry a movie star?