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10-03-2026, 07:40 PM,
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RE: Who wrote this?
I am sorry, Anita, but it wasn't Eleanor Roosevelt.
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10-04-2026, 12:31 AM,
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RE: Who wrote this?
Maybe too obvious to be right given the subject of this forum, but I’ll guess Mary Lincoln.
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10-04-2026, 05:39 AM,
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RE: Who wrote this?
Right on, Scott.  Very good!

Letter to her daughter-in-law, Mary Harlan Lincoln, circa 1870. SOURCE: First Ladies Quotation Book compiled and edited by William O. Foss (New York, Barricade Books, 1999), p.72. Also, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean H. Baker (New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1987), p.304.
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10-06-2026, 07:29 PM,
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RE: Who wrote this?
Light-hearted time.

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."
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10-07-2026, 03:39 AM,
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RE: Who wrote this?
Jackie Kennedy?
“The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns
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10-07-2026, 04:09 AM,
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RE: Who wrote this?
Nope. not Jackie Kennedy.  Earlier.
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10-07-2026, 06:48 AM,
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RE: Who wrote this?
Mamie Eisenhower ?
So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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10-07-2026, 07:52 AM,
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RE: Who wrote this?
It's not Mamie Eisenhower.  Earlier.
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10-07-2026, 09:36 PM,
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RE: Who wrote this?
Edith Roosevelt?

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10-08-2026, 04:15 AM,
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RE: Who wrote this?
Nope, it wasn't Edith Roosevelt, but Rob is closest to the right answer.
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10-08-2026, 03:59 PM,
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RE: Who wrote this?
This was a tough one - I think I'll just post the answer.  It was Helen Taft.

SOURCE:  Helen Taft, Reflections of Full Years, 1914.
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10-08-2026, 10:21 PM, (This post was last modified: 10-08-2026, 10:22 PM by AussieMick.)
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RE: Who wrote this?
"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."

Is it cruel of me to suggest that Mrs Taft probably never saw President Taft surfing?

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( But I'm sure that she loved him, anyway)
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Yesterday, 05:03 AM,
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RE: Who wrote this?
I think you might be onto something, Michael.  Rather he was a golfer.  Here is Robert Lincoln playing golf (3rd person from left) with Taft (far left).

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RE: Who wrote this?
The bedroom Taft stayed in at Hildene is the only room that's completely original and unrestored from the initial 1905 construction. And it's very neat to see.
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