Bess Truman quotes
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“You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.”
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“Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.”
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“A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.”
-- Bess TrumanSource : Bess Wallace Truman, Harry S. Truman (2011). “Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman, 1919–1943”, p.11, Truman State University Press
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“I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.”
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“I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.”
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“I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.”
-- Bess TrumanSource : Bess Wallace Truman, Harry S. Truman (2011). “Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman, 1919–1943”, p.14, Truman State University Press
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“[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.”
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“Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it.”
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“I'm much more conspicuous having long hair than I will be with it short.”
-- Bess TrumanSource : Bess Wallace Truman, Harry S. Truman (2011). “Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman, 1919–1943”, p.36, Truman State University Press
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“I was born on Delaware Street. We have never desired another home.”
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“I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle.”
-- Bess TrumanSource : Bess Wallace Truman, Harry S. Truman (2011). “Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman, 1919–1943”, p.14, Truman State University Press
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“I can't see any hope but a second front. The psychological effect would be great, even if they could not wade all the way to Berlin in 15 to 20 minutes.”
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“I am somewhat handicapped in doing things with my hands.”
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“Such widely different things as war and picnics will surely show a man up.”
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“It's very embarrassing to be put on the spot.”
-- Bess Truman -
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“Mother has to be coerced into doing a lot of things.”
-- Bess Truman
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