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in extremely dreary but lively terms. I'll let her do that for herself sometime. In any case, you know what happened. Mr. Eisenhower was in with a majority of six million, was it?

Q:

Yes, something like that. I remember seeing pictures of Stevenson...

Lasker:

Who were you for? Eisenhower or Stevenson?

Q:

I think I was for Eisenhower at that point.

Lasker:

Really? Yes. Well, at any rate, he made it.

Now, by this time Mrs. Mahoney was really one of the greatest friends of Mrs. Truman, and one afternoon in November of '52 she telephoned to Florence and said, “Florence, come over for dinner if you can. We've got Adlai Stevenson coming.” And Florence said, “Oh, I can't. I can't. Mary is here.” And Mrs. Truman said, “Oh, dear, that's a terrible problem. I don't know any extra men.” So, Florence said, “Well, I can't leave Mary,” so Mrs. Truman said, “Well, bring Mary anyhow.” I went to dinner and the five of us had dinner downstairs in the small dining room, and Stevenson and the President did most of the talking. It was very entertaining to me at least.

They talked about birth control and Truman said, that Eisenhower said that part of the solution to many problems would be to have birth control. And Truman said that he said to Eisenhower, “Yes, you should mention that in Massachusetts in a campaign speech.”





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