Emily in the 1950s
from Louise Davidson
When we were at summer camp, she was feeling sorry for a three-time Republican loser who had died before being elected to the presidency he had coveted. If that doesn't show Emily's compassion, I don't know what does. Later, as a pre-teen and early teen, I easily put to memory the chorus of a song she wrote:
I wish I had a teeny tiny rear
I wish I had a teeny tiny rear
If I had a teeny tiny rear
I'd eat and eat and never fear
I wish I had a teeny tiny rear.
(NK_04: Emily at Buckstone Farm in New Hope with her maternal grandfather, Morris Killian (1883–1953), August 1952)
(NK_07: Sophie Shiling and her daughters at the White House, 21 April 1954)
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