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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,675 posts) Mon May 11, 2020, 08:15 AM May 2020

President Truman and his still-disapproving mother-in-law, Madge Gates Wallace, White House, 1946:

President Truman and his still-disapproving mother-in-law, Madge Gates Wallace, White House, 1946: #HSTL

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President Truman and his still-disapproving mother-in-law, Madge Gates Wallace, White House, 1946: (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2020 OP

Truman was one of those rare individuals who rose despite ALL the odds to the challenge before him. hlthe2b May 2020 #1

My cousin's wife is like his m-i-l. 3Hotdogs May 2020 #2

There was a story about Madge never going into Boomerproud May 2020 #3

Bess's family was "high society" Freddie May 2020 #4

hlthe2b

(102,448 posts)

1. Truman was one of those rare individuals who rose despite ALL the odds to the challenge before him.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 08:19 AM

May 2020

As much as I love FDR, he never prepared him, nor apparently truly gave thought to Truman succeeding him. Poor Harry didn't even know about the Manhattan Project but was then responsible for making a decision about its use. Truman has risen on the lists of ranked Presidents on nearly every survey--consistently in the top 10. I think he was truly the exception to those poorly prepared and perhaps inadequately educated rising to the occasion.

3Hotdogs

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2. My cousin's wife is like his m-i-l.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 08:27 AM

May 2020

Nothing makes her smile.

Boomerproud

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3. There was a story about Madge never going into

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 08:47 AM

May 2020

the Lincoln bedroom because as a young girl during the Civil War she was put in a detention camp.

Freddie

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4. Bess's family was "high society"

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 09:10 AM

May 2020

In their small town in Missouri. The Trumans, not so much. MIL thought Harry wasn’t good enough for her daughter even when he was POTUS. And she always lived with them, and lived to be well in her 90s.

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