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WOW!  I'd never seen that.  Several years ago I attended a play about Mark
Twain going toi a meal at the White House with Roosevelt.  I can't remember
but I don't think that was quoted.

Arianne Laidlaw

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 7:26 AM, J. Dean <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> A short time ago I believe I recall some speculation about what Twain's
> view=
>  of Trump might have been.  Perhaps the following, which he wrote about
> Theo=
> dore Roosevelt, might come close.  "We have never had a President before
> who=
>  was destitute of self respect & of respect for his high office.  We have
> ha=
> d no President before who was not a gentleman; we have had no President
> befo=
> re who was intended for a butcher, a dive-keeper or a bully."
>
> Jerry Dean
> Beloit, KS=
>



-- 
Arianne Laidlaw A '58

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