Post Reply 
Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
07-18-2024, 11:56 AM
Post: #2296
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Pretty close, Joe, but Rob got it. It was white according to Elizabeth Keckly. Good job, Rob.
Find all posts by this user
Quote this message in a reply
07-27-2024, 07:21 PM
Post: #2297
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
No googling please.

Which First Lady said:

"It is horrible to be a man. But the grinding misery of being a woman between the upper and nether millstone of household cares and training children is almost as bad. To be half civilized with some aspirations for enlightenment, and obliged to spend the largest part of the time the victim of young barbarians keeps one in a perpetual ferment."
Find all posts by this user
Quote this message in a reply
07-27-2024, 10:17 PM
Post: #2298
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
My mum?

“The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns
Find all posts by this user
Quote this message in a reply
07-28-2024, 07:08 AM
Post: #2299
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Is this First Lady still living?

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
Find all posts by this user
Quote this message in a reply
07-28-2024, 10:00 AM
Post: #2300
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
No, she is not living.
Find all posts by this user
Quote this message in a reply
07-28-2024, 12:01 PM
Post: #2301
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
It sounds too old for a 20th-century First Lady, but if it's a 19th-century First Lady, there are so many to choose from. Wild guess, Ida McKinley?

Best
Rob

Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
Find all posts by this user
Quote this message in a reply
07-28-2024, 12:21 PM
Post: #2302
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Not her, Rob. It was a 19th century First Lady.
Find all posts by this user
Quote this message in a reply
07-28-2024, 04:36 PM
Post: #2303
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Abigail Adams ?

“The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns
Find all posts by this user
Quote this message in a reply
07-28-2024, 06:28 PM
Post: #2304
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Not her, Michael. Her husband served after the Civil War.
Find all posts by this user
Quote this message in a reply
07-28-2024, 08:45 PM
Post: #2305
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Rutherford Hayes wife, Lucy ?
(I googled his wife's name)

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
Find all posts by this user
Quote this message in a reply
07-28-2024, 09:26 PM
Post: #2306
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Sounds like a woman left home alone with the kids a lot. Julia Grant?

"There are few subjects that ignite more casual, uninformed bigotry and condescension from elites in this nation more than Dixie - Jonah Goldberg"
Find all posts by this user
Quote this message in a reply
07-29-2024, 03:58 AM
Post: #2307
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Gene and Joe...you are both close, but not correct.
Find all posts by this user
Quote this message in a reply
07-29-2024, 07:31 AM
Post: #2308
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
How about Garfield's wife (I can't remember her name)?

Best
Rob

Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
Find all posts by this user
Quote this message in a reply
07-29-2024, 07:54 AM
Post: #2309
RE: Presidents and First Ladies Trivia
Kudos, Rob. That is correct. Lucretia Garfield wrote this in a letter to her husband on June 5, 1877.
Find all posts by this user
Quote this message in a reply
Post Reply 


Forum Jump:


User(s) browsing this thread: 6 Guest(s)