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[bunnyjadwiga]

Recollections of Full Years, by Helen Herron Taft (Mrs. William Howard Taft):
http://books.google.com/books?id=q2AEAAAAYAAJ&dq=taft+mistress&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0

The members of my family, and especially my children, are prone to indulgence in good-natured personalities and they like to make the most of my serious attitude toward my domestic responsibilities, saying that I make them three times as difficult as they need to be by a too positive insistence on my own methods...
p. 347, ch. XVII, "The White House"

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[iasmin.livejournal.com]

And here I thought I had my reading habit under semi-control. *sigh*