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Rachel Donaldson Jackson: I would rather...

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I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

Source: In The President's House, by William Seale, 1986.
-- Rachel Donaldson Jackson, (Jun 15 1767-1828), US first lady; She caused a scandal when she married Andrew Jackson before divorcing her first husband, Lewis Robards.


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