Word: besse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fatiguing rounds. She exercised an immemorial wifely prerogative, held up the family's departure for the twin balls for 15 minutes while she completed her toilette. Finally, at 2 a.m.. after a grueling, 18-hour day, Mamie and Ike got into the same beds which Harry and Bess Truman had slept in the night before...
...supervise the unpacking of two vanloads of Eisenhower belongings. There were 25 suitcases and eight plastic garment bags to sort out and hang up-and Mamie discovered that her own closet space was woefully inadequate. Temporarily, she hung her frocks on rolling racks from the downstairs checkrooms. (Bess Truman got around the difficulty by keeping much of her wardrobe on the third floor...
...wife Delores, who will preside over the upstairs kitchen, and Rose Woods, Mamie's personal maid) had to be squared away. Then there was the question of the press. The First Lady quickly decided on a compromise between the Eleanor Roosevelt system of weekly press conferences and the Bess Truman system of none. Mamie would hold nonpolitical conferences whenever she had anything...
...highest office in the world; Mamie's proud tears as she watched him take the oath; Bob Taft's stony expression as he watched another man assume the job he had sought so long; Harry Truman staring at the floor of the platform and whispering to Mamie; Bess Truman biting...
Last Blow. As Harry came to the end of his speech, Bess and Margaret came to his side. Solemnly they faced the TV cameras while he said: "And now the time has come for me to say goodnight and-God bless...