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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Rob Wick - 05-31-2024 07:46 AM
How about Woodrow Wilson?
Best
Rob
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 05-31-2024 10:42 AM
Nope, it was not either of Wilson's wives.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - J. Beckert - 05-31-2024 12:54 PM
Because he was a raging alcoholic and his marital life was filled with horrible tragedies, I'll guess the wife of Franklin Pierce.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 05-31-2024 04:00 PM
Nope, but you are in the right century, Joe.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Steve - 05-31-2024 07:35 PM
Lucretia Garfield?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Gene C - 06-01-2024 05:39 AM
Eliza Johnson ?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 06-01-2024 06:32 AM
Steve, you got it. Kudos. The quote is from a letter written by Lucretia on July 7, 1867.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Steve - 06-01-2024 07:44 PM
Roger, when I made my guess I was thinking of the Garfields before they married. A few weeks ago I watched a 2 1/2 hour YouTube video on Garfield. In it the speaker said that after dating for several years Garfield became infatuated with a woman named Rebecca Selleck and only married Lucretia reluctantly. This 1867 incident wasn't mentioned at all as far as I can remember. Do you have more information about it?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 06-02-2024 05:05 AM
(06-01-2024 07:44 PM)Steve Wrote: This 1867 incident wasn't mentioned at all as far as I can remember. Do you have more information about it?
I am sorry, Steve, but I do not. My source was a book entitled First Ladies Quotation Book: A Compendium of Provocative, Tender, Witty, and Important Words from the Presidents' Wives by William O. Foss.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Anita - 06-02-2024 04:25 PM
Lucretia's personal letters were donated by the family to the LOC.
Read about the Rebecca Selleck and James Garfield relationship and also his later extramarital affair in 1864.
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2019/08/now-online-the-love-letters-of-james-and-lucretia-garfield/
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Steve - 06-02-2024 06:10 PM
Thanks Anita!
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Anita - 06-19-2024 08:25 PM
No Googling please.
Name the first First Lady to ride in the Inaugural Parade with her husband, after the swearing in ceremony.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Rob Wick - 06-19-2024 09:17 PM
Wild guess, but Edith Wilson?
Best
Rob
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - AussieMick - 06-20-2024 03:25 AM
Wild , wild guess .? Eleanor Roosevelt.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 06-20-2024 05:20 AM
Lou Henry Hoover?