On civil rights to gun control to women’s rights, Jackie Kennedy, Pat Nixon, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nancy Reagan give context to the recent declaration that Melania Trump is “Independent” from the President Copyrighted, 2017 All media and individuals using this original… Read More ›
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In Bed with Jackie Kennedy & Other First Ladies: Some of Their Boudoirs
As the gallery of images in the previous article showing the beds and bedrooms of the U.S. Presidents suggests, they usually had a lot of room to share it. Most did so with their wives. Still, there was nothing to… Read More ›
A First Lady Fears She Wouldn’t Shut Up: Abigail “Mrs. President” Adams, January 29, 1797
For a First Lady so famous, it’s amazing that during her husband’s one term in office that she was on the scene for less than two of his four years as President. The fact is, however, that Abigail Adams, wife… Read More ›
Songs & Music About First Ladies: Vote for the Best One
Loved and loathed, flowers and colors named for them, parodied on Saturday Night Live skits and Halloween masks, First Ladies are woven into the fabric of American Pop Culture. And, First Ladies have had songs written about them, being set… Read More ›
First Ladies & Actresses Who Played Them: Vote Your Favorite
Meryl Streep‘s portrayal of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has won her a nomination for Best Actress at tomorrow’s Academy Awards but the lack of any Oscar (or even Emmy) nomination for playing an American First Lady, however, doesn’t… Read More ›
The Four Best Presidential Pumpkin Pies: From the first Adams and Johnson, Ike & Reagan
When it comes to Presidents, the quality of political policy is entirely inconsistent with that of their pumpkin pie. There’s not even a preference for pumpkin over mince, for example, among those regularly rated as either the “best” (like… Read More ›
The first “First Lady” Never Married the President: Recently Discovered 1860 Magazine first to Use the Title “First Lady”
Germaine Greer suggested the United States abolish it and Jackie Kennedy said it made her sound like a saddle horse, but as a recently discovered 19th century magazine article proves, the title of “First Lady” has been part of the… Read More ›
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