When Bess Truman, the new president’s mother, was told that she could sleep in the White House’s Lincoln Bedroom, she, “her Confederate blood rising, said if that was the choice she would prefer the floor.” (This from David McCullough’s “Truman.”) The building’s floors, however, were sagging.
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