Mrs. Roosevelt stopped by the Blair House on her way out of town, as a courtesy to Bess and Margaret. She apologized for the state of the White House, and admitted that she had recently seen a rat scamper across a porch railing while she was having lunch with friends on the South Portico. Due to the war emergency, the Roosevelts had no time to keep up the home. When Bess and Margaret went to look at the place, they were not happy. “The expression on Mother’s face when she saw the dingy, worn furniture and the shabby white walls, unpainted in twelve years, was more expressive than any paragraph
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Maybe Mrs Roosevelt should have taken care of house instead of being a politican
