Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even the U.S. Senate could fathom all the intricacies of the bill's formula. "I think the Senator is partly mixed up with the next amendment to be discussed," said Delaware Republican John Williams last week during the final debate. Replied Vermont Republican George Aiken: "I am thoroughly mixed up, not partly...
...died in April 1945, at Warm Springs, Ga., the reports of the visit indicate that both she and Mrs. Elizabeth Shoumatoff, an artist who was doing a watercolor portrait of F.D.R. (and who had previously painted Lucy), left the house as soon as F.D.R. was stricken, and went to Aiken, S.C. They were not present when he died...
...Lucy's close friend, Mrs. Eulalie Salley, 82, of Aiken, who recently said that Roosevelt was in love with Lucy, but termed "ridiculous" the hint of some thing scandalous in the relationship, had, if not the last word, at least the most powerful...
...died." By all accounts, F.D.R. thereafter kept in frequent contact with Lucy. For example, says Daniels, he "quietly arranged for special tickets and a special car for Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd at his Inauguration" in 1933. He also visited the Rutherfurds' stately winter home in Aiken, S.C., several times, and the Rutherfurds called at the White House. Daniels says that Lucy visited the Little White House at Warm Springs, Ga., on several occasions. In fact, though her presence was unpublicized at the time, she was with Roosevelt there on the day he died-April 12, 1945. To the very last...
...Rutherfurd died in a New York City hospital in 1948, in her 58th year. Last week her daughter, Mrs. Robert W. Knowles of Aiken, called Daniels' disclosures "quite a surprise to me." It was quite a surprise to a lot of people, and more details are bound to come out in the future. Daniels, for one, who called the liaison "nothing shameful" and "the beautiful affair of a great lady and a gentleman," intimated that he is considering following up his coup with a full-length account of "one of the great love stories of American history...