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RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Donna McCreary - 02-27-2013 07:00 PM
Presdient Zachery Taylor was the last president to own slaves while living in the White House. I do not have documentation as to whether or not he brought his own servants with him to Washington.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 03-06-2013 10:58 AM
Which First Lady wrote:
"Dear Washington, how I love you, with your beautiful, broad, generous streets and blue skies! The sun shines always there for me."
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - L Verge - 03-06-2013 11:41 AM
With that description, I would think it has to be a 20th-century First Lady because the streets were not always broad and beautiful. Wild guess - Lady Bird Johnson.
Whoever said it, I have to agree. I know I count myself as a Washingtonian, having been raised on its front porch in Maryland; but it truly is a beautiful city. I spent a summer touring Europe in my single days, and only Vienna, Austria, impressed me as much as D.C.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 03-06-2013 11:46 AM
Laurie, the reason this quote struck me is exactly as you say...I also would think first of a 20th century First Lady.
Hint #1: The quote comes from a 19th century First Lady.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - L Verge - 03-06-2013 12:09 PM
Post-Civil War?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 03-06-2013 05:29 PM
Hint #2: She was a First Lady after the Civil War and is buried in New York.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - J. Beckert - 03-06-2013 05:39 PM
Julia Grant?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 03-06-2013 05:45 PM
You are correct, Joe. Julia included that observation in her memoirs.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 04-18-2013 09:36 AM
Which First Lady said:
".....in the process I have become a very respectable carpenter."
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - J. Beckert - 04-18-2013 09:48 AM
Because she was First Lady when the WH was gutted and remodeled, I'll guess Bess Truman.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 04-18-2013 09:52 AM
There is a logical answer to this one, Joe, and yours is certainly a logical reply, but it's not her.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Gene C - 04-18-2013 10:03 AM
Rosalynn Carter with her and Jimmy Carters involvement with Habitat for Humanity?
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 04-18-2013 10:24 AM
Exactly right, Gene! She made the comment in an address at the Riverside Baptist Church in Washington on May 5, 1989.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 04-26-2013 05:32 AM
Which First Lady wrote, "I should not blame my own heart if I lost all faith in you."
This was written after she found out her husband was seeing another woman.
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Gene C - 04-26-2013 06:54 AM
How about a multiple choice selection with e)all of the above the correct answer?
Hillary Clinton? Jackie Kennedy? Eliza Johnson? Florence Harding?
Eleanor Roosevelt, my final answer