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Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
05-31-2024, 07:46 AM,
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How about Woodrow Wilson?

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05-31-2024, 10:42 AM,
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Nope, it was not either of Wilson's wives.
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05-31-2024, 12:54 PM, (This post was last modified: 05-31-2024, 01:02 PM by J. Beckert.)
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Because he was a raging alcoholic and his marital life was filled with horrible tragedies, I'll guess the wife of Franklin Pierce.
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05-31-2024, 04:00 PM,
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Nope, but you are in the right century, Joe.
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05-31-2024, 07:35 PM,
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Lucretia Garfield?
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06-01-2024, 05:39 AM,
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Eliza Johnson ?
So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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06-01-2024, 06:32 AM,
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Steve, you got it. Kudos. The quote is from a letter written by Lucretia on July 7, 1867.
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06-01-2024, 07:44 PM,
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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?
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06-02-2024, 05:05 AM,
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(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.
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06-02-2024, 04:25 PM, (This post was last modified: 06-02-2024, 04:43 PM by Anita.)
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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-on...-garfield/
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06-02-2024, 06:10 PM,
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Thanks Anita!
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06-19-2024, 08:25 PM,
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No Googling please.

Name the first First Lady to ride in the Inaugural Parade with her husband, after the swearing in ceremony.
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06-19-2024, 09:17 PM,
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Wild guess, but Edith Wilson?

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06-20-2024, 03:25 AM,
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Wild , wild guess .? Eleanor Roosevelt.
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06-20-2024, 05:20 AM,
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Lou Henry Hoover?
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