She hated politics, hated it with a passion. She did not move in to the white house with pierce. This couch is one piece that they took to the white house. They had eight rooms that they had to furnish with their personal furniture. When she did arrive, she basically holed up and spent much of her time writing letters to her dead son. In her great grief, she calls him, my precious child, i must write to you, although you are never to see it or know it. A very poignant letter written by a grieving mother. They were on a train from boston to concord and there was a terrible accident. The train ride was very devastating for the family. An axle rod broke on the train and benny did not survive the crash. She concluded that this was gods judgment, that the loss of her son was gods punishment. The house was too much for jane to take care of. I dont think she was interested in housekeeping particularly. She just wasnt capable of taking care of a house. Most would regard that pierce himself as
Sun afternoon at work k with our cable affiliates and cities across the country. With our cable affiliates and cities across the country. With our cable affiliates and cities across the country. This week on q a robert strauss, he talks about his book worst president ever. The legacy of the lesser president s. Robert strauss author of worst. President. Ever. To my family, who made me read every historical marker, for my mother edna especially for teaching me to laugh at myself. Explain your dads connection . Well, my dad he saw when i was little and picked up the sports page that i would read every little statistic on it so he bought me a book, it would have every last line however long they lived to the day after their inauguration or how long their mothers lived where they came from, any way so it became this sort of thing for me that i was the money ball guy for president s as a little kid and they would show me off at parties but then my father wherever they would drive there would