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Are You Prepared for the Storm of Lovemaking
Releasing from Simon and Schuster 6-Feb-2024, Are You Prepared for the Storm of Lovemaking?
With the rest of the country, we mourn the passing of Rosalynn Carter, wife of Jimmy Carter and a half of the longest-running presidential marriage (seventy-seven years) in US history. Jimmy Carter included the poem "Rosalynn" in his 1994 book Always a Reckoning and other poems. Here is the poem: ![]()
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She’d smile, and birds would feel that they no longer![]()
had to sing, or it may be I failed![]()
to hear their song.![]()
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Within a crowd, I’d hope her glance might be![]()
for me, but I knew that she was shy, and wished![]()
to be alone.![]()
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I’d pay to sit behind her, blind to what![]()
was on the screen, and watch the image flicker![]()
upon her hair.![]()
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I’d glow when her diminished voice would clear![]()
the muddled thoughts, like lightening flashing in![]()
a gloomy sky.![]()
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The nothing in my soul with her aloof![]()
was changed to foolish fullness when she came![]()
to be with me.![]()
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With shyness gone and hair caressed with gray,![]()
her smile still makes the birds forget to sing![]()
and me to hear their song.![]()
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Image posted by Carter library on X, 26 Sep 2023, Museum Object 98.43.1
Happy anniversary to Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson (1934). Lyndon proposed to Lady Bird the first time they met, and she turned him down. She had a degree from the University of Texas, and he was an assistant to a Texas Congressman, so when he had to return to Washington for his job, he began to write to her. He sent a letter almost every day, declaring his love and asking her to write back. Most of the time, she did, and when he returned to Texas after a few weeks, he proposed again…and again. Later, as a member of Congress and then President, he would use the same persistence and arm-twisting to gain support for his policies. Lady Bird finally agreed. When she did, he wanted to get married that very day. Reminded that it was usual to present the bride with a ring, he went to a Sears, Roebuck store and bought one for $2.50. They had a honeymoon in Mexico. She proved to be a skillful promoter of his political career. Unfortunately, he was frequently unfaithful, but she ignored this, later telling a reporter, "Lyndon loves all people,, and since women make up half the human race, I can’t tell him to ignore that many people."
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A belated Happy Birthday to Mamie Eisenhower (Nov. 14, 1896). Mamie’s parents were wealthy, but she fell in love with a man destined to become a lifelong soldier, and thus separated from her for long periods of time. The letters he wrote to her during World War II, when he rose to become commander of the U.S. armed forces, show that he always found time to write her. Like other military men in our book, he promised to retire to a farm afterward, but that didn’t happen until after he became president of Columbia University and finally President of the United States. Ever-faithful Mamie stayed devoted to her "Ike" even when a magazine suggested he was romancing his female driver in the war.![]()
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Photo: Mamie Eisenhower with Girl Scouts, 1954![]()
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Photograph 72-722-2; Mamie D. Eisenhower Meets with Girl Scouts from Marion, South Carolina, Outside the White House; 3/9/1954; White House Albums, 1953 – 1961; Records of the National Park Service, Record Group 79; Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, KS. [Online Version, www.docsteach.org/documents/document/mamie-eisenhower-meets-girl-scouts, November 17, 2023] ![]()
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Exciting news: Publishers Weekly had a highly favorable review of the book, which they called an "often touching and sometimes racy compilation" of the Presidential love letters. They conclude with: "Readers will relish the tender exchanges and juicy revelations in this humanizing portrait of American presidents."![]()
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Do even future presidents sometimes have a hard time with their self esteem? Here is the letter that Harry Truman, who had been in love with Bess Wallace since they met in kindergarten, wrote to her once she finally accepted his proposal of marriage: ![]()
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November 4, 1913![]()
Dear Bess,![]()
Your letter has made a confirmed optimist out of me sure enough. I know now that everything is good and grand…I have been all up in the air, clear above earth ever since it came. I guess you thought I didn’t have much sense Sunday [when he apparently visited her], but I couldn’t say anything–only hoped you would but some way feared very much you wouldn’t. You know, I’ve always thought that the best man in the world is hardly good enough for any woman, but when it comes to the best girl in the universe caring for an ordinary gink like me–well, you’ll have to let me get used to it….I’m hoping it won’t be long [to wait]. I wish it was tomorrow. Let’s get engaged anyway to see how it feels. No one need know it but you and me until we get ready to tell it anyway. If you see a man you think more of in the meantime, engagements are easy enough broken. I always said I’d have you or no one and that’s when I mean to do.![]()
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Harry![]()
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Photo: Bess and Harry fishing with chaperones, probably 1913. After Bess had rejected his proposal in 1911, they continued along and she accepted getting engaged in 1913, but they would not marry until 1919. To know more, pick up our book at your favorite retailer!![]()
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Image source: catalog.archives.gov/id/6233749