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Bess Truman
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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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“[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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“I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.”
Bess Truman, U.S. first lady
(1885 - 1982)
Full name: Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman.