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[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.
Bess Truman
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Bess Truman
Age: 97 †
Born: 1885
Born: February 13
Died: 1982
Died: October 18
Former First Lady Of The United States
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Independence
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Bess Wallace Truman
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman
Elizabeth Virginia Truman
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Fertilizer
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