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To: exit82

Mary Todd got a bad rap. She had some fancy dresses, not a Boeing.


6 posted on 12/24/2011 7:22:44 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: Mamzelle

Remember the HELL Nancy Reagan got when she bough some China for the White House?


13 posted on 12/24/2011 7:28:17 AM PST by DManA
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To: Mamzelle

Mary Todd was a spendthrift. Big time. The level of her out of control spending shocked and worried Lincoln, and it was openly mocked.

Then again, she lost a young son in 1863, and her oldest child was off to war. Her husband was reviled and she was shunned by DC society. Not a happy existence.


21 posted on 12/24/2011 7:35:12 AM PST by exit82 (Democrats are the enemies of freedom. We have ideas-the Dems only have ideology.)
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To: Mamzelle
Mary Todd got a bad rap. She had some fancy dresses, not a Boeing.

And most, if not all were paid for out of Abe's wallet.

35 posted on 12/24/2011 7:57:11 AM PST by Graybeard58 (No Obama, No Romney, No Paul, No Huntsman. We can do better than that!)
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