From her earliest childhood days on Long Island, through her youth in New York, Newport, Rhode Island and McLean, Virginia, to her public period as the wife of a U.S. Senator in Washington and in the White House as First… Read More ›
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The Reagans Host Old Hollywood & New “Royalty” at the White House
There seemed to be a time that, rather than go to Hollywood and take a tour bus through Beverly Hills hoping to glimpse one of the famous names of its Golden Era, one had a better chance of seeing them… Read More ›
The Earliest First Lady’s Recorded Voice: Theodore Roosevelt’s wife Edith Speaks
So often in life when we’re close to someone we know well or even closely follow the life of a public person, it is easy to assume we know how they will continue to conduct their life. And, the truth… Read More ›
Obama’s Girls, Teddy’s Boys, Jackie Kennedy’s Kindergarten: School Tales of White House Kids
Three weeks ago, national media coverage of President Obama’s upcoming Inauguration was briefly distracted when the National Rifle Association referenced the fact that his daughters are protected by Secret Service agents in its 35-second online ad opposing his plan for… Read More ›
Bush Grandsons Entering Politics, Trying to Turn the Latino Vote Republican
George P. Bush first became famous as the grandson of the forty-first U.S. President George Bush, the son of former Florida Governor James Ellis “Jeb” Bush, the nephew of forty-third President George W. Bush and great-grandson of the late U.S…. Read More ›
At the Heart of Hillary Clinton: A First Lady of the World’s Core Values
It was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson who, upon Eleanor Roosevelt‘s 1962 death, called her a “First Lady of the World,” a reflection of her years as Chairman of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women… Read More ›
A Short History of First Lady Hair’Dos & its Big Bang Theory
In the one week since First Lady Michelle Obama had her hair cut and styled with bangs, this apparently momentous shift of the planetary system has generated a level of grave and serious reporting rivaling predictions on how the imminent… Read More ›
What Happened to a Little Boy Who Defied the President?
In the course of his often stressful, unpredictable days, President Obama welcomes the chance to meet many young children, who come with questions and blunt remarks known to amuse and delight him, to which he usually responds with some optimistic… Read More ›
Presidential Kids at the Inauguration
At Barack Obama’s swearing-in ceremony today, as well as the private one held yesterday, his 2009 Inauguration as President and his 2005 oath as a United States Senator, it was not just his wife but his two daughters Malia and… Read More ›
That Mysterious Woman at Obama’s Sunday Inaugural Ceremony & Historical Context
In politics, you can never anticipate just who will pop into the pictures of history. Earlier today, January 20, 2013, President Barack Obama repeated the first of two oath-of-office clauses and was sworn into his second term as President. Tomorrow,… Read More ›
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