I don’t believe those ‘telegrams’ for a minute, but have heard this actually occurred in a conversation between a reporter and Bess Truman, the FLOTUS.
“Ma’am, could you get the president to stop saying ‘manure’ all the time?”
“Hon, it took me 35 years to get him to say ‘manure’!”
I’m sure that’s absolutely true... He could cuss with the best of them.
I do have a memory, when I was very young, of seeing HST mowing his lawn in Independence. I must have been 4 or 5.
Mark