Mamie Eisenhower after the White House

And most importantly, did she get rid of those hideous fucking bangs?

We don’t really know much about her, do we? Maybe she had depths.

How’s she doing dealing with this pandemic? She better not catch it and give it to Ike. He’s a national treasure!!

Fun fact: Mrs Eisenhower was my gateway to DataLounge.

I googled her for some reason, and there was an extensive thread dedicated to her pointless bitchery, weird hair, and hideous food. I was hooked!

At what point did she decide to have part of her head lopped off?

"I retired to Gettysburg with my devoted Colored footman Roscoe to work on my many charitable causes."

"Oh yes, and with...um...Ike too...of course Ike was there with us...I mean the President, of course. He was there too."

After Ike died, she would specifically request no Negro Secret Service men. She believed they stole the silverware.

She was a lovely woman, who often visited the area in which I grew up. There are still former shop assistants who speak of her fondly. Sadly, she died before I was born.

I was a mere babe but people thought she was creepy. My parents thought Dwight was dumb and spent all his time on the golf course. They hated Nixon with the heat of a thousand suns.

I think, after the White House, Mamie spent at least part of her time curating her collection of canned parsleyed potatoes.

R9 Ike wasn't dumb by a long shot. Underestimated and folksy, perhaps, but he was not ignorant or unobservant man, despite his wife's bangs.

Was Ike a DL daddy with a lover on the side?

She sat on her ass, played bridge, drank and smoked like so many women of her generation did.

R13, sat on her ass, played bridge, drank, smoked and made fudge. Don't forget about Mamie's famous "Million Dollar Fudge"!

This is not the definition of dumb. If you haven't seen this, give it a watch. It explains a whole lot of what is going on to this day.

After 4 years of that lazy and stupid Slovenian whore. Every other First Lady gets my respect and admiration.

Fuck that trashy Streetwalker.

Thanks for posting that, R15. I had heard of the speech for years but never listened. It’s eloquent and chillingly prescient. Only an ignoramus would think this man dumb. Quite the contrary.

Only an ignoramus would think people are not well-acquainted with his "beware of the military industrial complex" speech.

Did you know who wrote it for him?

"President Eisenhower’s chief speechwriter was Malcolm Moos, a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins, a man of great charm and ambition, who also happened to be the city chairman of the Republican Party in Baltimore. He brought with him from his native Minnesota a moderate political caste that was not always popular in his party. (He would later become the President of the University of Minnesota.) "

R18 And?

She gave us ugly pink and blue bathrooms. Her only lasting legacy, is in the bathrooms of thousands of obsolete American homes.

When I was younger, in the ‘60s & ‘70s, Eisenhower was a lowly-regarded president, while Wilson was considered among the greats. Interesting how the passage of time has altered the fortunes of these two administrations.

Mamie's bedroom. This was after she left the White House. Pepto-Bismol pink was her favorite color.

R19 stung because he thought only he and his junior year high school class were aware of Eisenhower's signature speech.

[quote]When I was younger, in the ‘60s & ‘70s, Eisenhower was a lowly-regarded president, while Wilson was considered among the greats. Interesting how the passage of time has altered the fortunes of these two administrations.

After Trump, even Millard Fillmore looks good.

Woodrow Wilson is very problematic now!

R23 stung because I indirectly called his hepcat parents ignoramuses.

R26--too dumb to realize that was the prevailing view among Democrats at the time. Hepcats were a subsequent generation. In their minds, FDR was God.

R27 all over the place with his incoherent retorts. Eisenhower wasn’t cool enough for your parents, we get it.

She retired to the sleepy town of Gettysburg. Ike painted. The person above she sat on her ass and smoked is probably not far off. Probably a weekly outing with the ladies.

Mamie was a smoker and a drinker, that's pretty well-known.

[quote]Mamie's bedroom...

And how sporting of her to allow Ike to keep a painting of Kay Summersby over the fireplace.

That DL Mamie thread was epic.

Odd that they ended up in Gettysburg. Of all,places.

She drank, watched soaps, and got fat!

R4 or R32 You all have a link?

To R30, as someone who loves to smoke and a drink, and has fondness for men with a take charge attitude, but with seemingly reasonable and loving side, sign me up for the Mamie School of Looks Not that Important School of Success.

There have been may iconic Mamie threads on DL, often in connection with her cruel subjection of a post-partum Jackie to the rigors of a White House tour sans wheelchair.

R33, why odd? Great military history there and Ike was a military man. They lived on a farm outside the town proper. Close enough to DC. Perfect really. They attended the Presbyterian church in the middle of town. Ike had never been baptized and although raised Quaker was not a member of any church. They had to get him baptized as some type of Protestant so they found some Presbyterian minister to do it ten days after he was sworn in.

[quote]Don't forget about Mamie's famous "Million Dollar Fudge"!

That didn't originally start out in the kitchen.

Mamie is responsible for keeping Gettysburg liquor stores and wine shops in business.

Mamie liked a tipple and a cig. Or twenty.

I never understood why Mamie's Million Dollar Fudge took 24 hours to make until I read the original recipe.

The absurdity of Eisenhower's speech on the "military-industrial complex" (which continues to own much of our political and economic lives) is that Eisenhower did nothing to circumvent the emerging cabal when he had a chance.

"Someone else's problem" was his and the GOP's approach for many issues, then as now. His health was terrible, of course, he was NOT on top of his game for periods of time, he gave Nixon his start while shitting on him pretty much the whole eight years, and killed the rail system the USA still needs. But in the full bloom of the postwar economy, he didn't have to do too much. And his stand on federal power versus states' rights on racial barriers helped maintain the movement into the 1960s. Although he was dodgy and quiet in a lot of ways.

And then there was the little Vietnam issue, and his administration's green light for the Bay of Pigs.

There is no absurdity to his speech. It's clear that even as the President, he was aware of, but could not control the forces coming to the forefront. He makes it clear that it is the responsibility of every citizen to do what little they can to turn it around to what most people really want to see and live. It's all there in that speech.

He's saying it is a force that needs confronted, but it isn't going to be one person, regardless of their status. He's saying this as someone who was the President of the United States, knows it's an issue, and couldn't stop what he's seeing. It's a pretty important speech.

God, I LOVE Mamie threads. Yas, kween!

R44, definitely OT, but I look at what they spend on ONE Lockheed F-35 plane, and they’re planning on buying 3,000 of them, and I think, “how the hell do you stop this moving train?”

R44, you're a contrarian or David Eisenhower.

If you read my post without your Eisenhower-Blow-Up Doll beckoning, you will not feel so turgid and moist over parsing and misunderstanding the single word, "absurdity," in my post. I'll wager I am more familiar with the context of the speech and its antecedents than you are.

If you'd quit wringing your hands, perhaps they wouldn't appear so raw and inflamed.

She loved pink and also those dentist office green walls.

I have not paid nearly enough attention to these threads over the years. I really appreciate this closer look at Mamie. And she certainly needs a closer look. The bangs. I know so much as been said already but, someone told her they looked good. That person must have really hated her.. Also her Gettysburg bedroom reminds me of my grandmothers bedroom. It has so many curtain layers. That old girl did not want anyone peaking in and seeing her no no. Can you even imagine?

Lawd, dat white lady sho' do love gettin' fucked in da ass.

Roscoe, you're used to taking a back entrance so it works out well for you.

[quote]I never understood why Mamie's Million Dollar Fudge took 24 hours to make until I read the original recipe.

Well, it has to go through the digestive system first.

She was a dipsomaniac.

Not to mention a kleptomaniac, a pyromaniac, and a nymphomaniac!

How did America endure 28 years of brutal First Lady ugliness (Eleanor, Bess, Mamie) before Jackie on Assistance came along?

Jackie must've seemed like a Goddess from Mount Olympus after so many years of old matronly First Ladies.

I have no idea, r55.

None of them were oil paintings like I was.

Well, the bitch sure had enough supplies to last her for several years after she left the White House. There wasn’t a roll of toilet paper, ashtray, or even a fucking light bulb left when I came in. She even took the ice trays out of the refrigerators. All that was left was a smelly ass douche bag under the sink and some kind of homosexual body building magazine in one of Ike’s desk drawers.

Needless to say......she was a role model whose example I followed when I left the White House- except the homosexual magazine. I sent that to Nixon and told him to fuck himself silly.

That tired old "Jackie on Assistance" thing has never been funny.

Her iconic hairstyle was created for her by the stylists at Elizabeth Arden in New York. It was an impossible assignment and they did the best they could. Mamie's hair was brittle and frail and had begun to recede excessively in the front. That's why the bangs were created, to cover up what was basically a bald spot above her forehead. She never changed it because there just wasn't anything else anybody could come up with.

I wonder why she just didn't have some quality wigs made.

Was Mamie a trans lady? There is something vaguely masculine about her face.

Young Mamie. You wouldn't know it was the same woman.

R63, is that Nicolas Fairford?

[quote]She never changed it because there just wasn't anything else anybody could come up with.

Hats with veils?

Brown paper bag?

I've seen the recipe and I'm still wondering why Mamie's million-dollar fudge takes 24 hours.

[quote]I've seen the recipe and I'm still wondering why Mamie's million-dollar fudge takes 24 hours.

Because that's how long it took to go through the digestive tract before is was shat out all over Danny Thomas's face while he jacked off.

Eleanor Roosevelt was around when Jackie was in the White House and no one had much of a clue about what cheating pigs their husbands were. In my Democratic home, Roosevelt was seen as one step away from sainthood and Jackie was the epitome of sophistication and glamour. Women copied her hair and pillbox hats. Mamie was relatively inconsequential but not hugely disliked. Pat Nixon was regarded as long-suffering even then.

Poor Pat Nixon. I feel the most sorry for her of all the First Ladies.

FDR and Eleanor stopped having physical relations after their last child was born. He had his affairs and she muff dived as much as she could and they were both happy as pigs in shit. They had an understanding and they were fine with it.

[quote]He had his affairs and she muff dived as much as she could and they were both happy as pigs in shit.

You have quite the gift for a turn of phrase, R70.

That's exactly how Edna St. Vincent Millay described them r71.

So American are calling the grannies "Mamie" now? Just like the French people. Why are Americans so obsessed with the French language?

WTF R73?

When did she start caring for young Patrick? I never approved of Mamie's friendship with that actress who I've heard might be, well, you know, one of "the chosen people".

Oh my god young Dwight was the fucking hotness. Those lips! Those bedroom eyes!

Every Christmas I comb my hair to create a SEVERE line of front bangs, and then whip up a batch of Mamie Eisenhower’s “Million Dollar Fudge” (recipe posted above in this thread). It always turns out downright fabulous!

One thing the version of the recipe above leaves out is that you must STIR CONSTANTLY during the 6-minute boiling period.

The 24-hour completion time is actually because the fudge tastes even better after being kept overnight before consuming.

R73 No. This is about one specific woman whose name was Mamie (MAY-mee).

I'd just had a caesarean and the homely old cunt wouldn't get me a wheelchair for our walk around the house. Sadistic bitch

Was Mamie a nymphomaniac?

Mamie spent time in Spain with Erna to perfect her fudge recipe!

If Sex and the City were rewritten to set it in DC with former First Ladies making up the cast, would Mamie have a part?

What r69 said. And, imho, Pat Nixon was a pretty, if not beautiful, woman.

Her fudge recipe was copied off the back of a jar of marshmallow cream. I've made it for years---foolproof but hardly original. Just one indication of her general phoniness and unlikable ordinariness, along with the parslied potatoes. Bess Truman was a more authentic battleax.

Eisenhower was a supreme egotist but kept that from the public. He was right about the military-industrial complex but did nothing to stop it. He also warned us about land wars in Asia yet sent advisors and impractical military gear like tanks to Vietnam, anyway. He delegated too much foreign policy to the Dulles brothers. His one saving grace was that he little use for Nixon (who was forced on him by the GOP establishment) and loved treating him like some inept junior officer.

Wilson's administration had several good domestic policy accomplishments. Sorry about Woody's rancid racism though.

The United States has had several good to great First Ladies, which is a really difficult undefined and non-paying job, and make no mistake, it's a job. Jackie, Lady Bird, Betty, Rosalyn, Hillary, Michele, etc.

Then there was the Slovenian-born spouse of the former guy.

[quote]Was Mamie a nymphomaniac?

Are you kidding, R80? Nymphomania was her signature cause, like Barbara Bush and illiteracy or Michelle Obama and fat kids.

She serviced ALL interested parties. The homeless in DC never had it so good!

Did Ike ever do it with men?

He pings to me too, R89.

R81 — Mamie did all the fudge-cooking in Spain. Erna just packed it.

Was Mamie bald? Was her hair just a bad wig?

Mamie was not bald.

"America can't stand pat."

Richard Nixon actually said this.

There’s a great story told by the White House chief usher about Mamie putting ink in her nose instead of Vicks Vapor Rub. It was dark and she dipped her fingers in the ink well instead of the Vicks. The next morning Ike had ink all over him, Mamie had it on her and the headboard had to be reupholstered.

Ike and mamie seemed to have a loving marriage unlike the other first couples

Say what you want, but for one woman - a Mother - to do what Mamie did to Jacqueline - another woman and Mother - during that long, grueling tour of the Whitehouse is the very height of Mega Cuntitude! On that day, good ole Mamie cunted like no cunt had ever cunted before!

R96: He'd raise a toast to her and then go off with his mistress.

Ike was bi, his aide de camp blew him a few times a week.

[quote]There’s a great story told by the White House chief usher.

The ushers during the Eisenhower era would never break protocol and repeat a story like that. Similar to Harry Truman destroying the headboard fucking Bess and having the sheepishly tell the Secret Service. I asked Truman's nephew on Bess' side of the family, who lived with the couple in the Independence MO family home, in a bedroom RIGHT ACROSS THE HALL if Harry and Bess did the nasty so loud.

He just rolled his eyes at me.