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