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Barbara Bush, Early 90s Icon: The Simpsons to The Laptop
With the death of former First Lady Barbara Bush, 92, wife of one Vice President who then became President, mother of another President, recollections, analysis and tributes about her life and legacy have flooded the media on broadcast, print and… Read More ›
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Barbara Bush & Nancy Reagan: Their Contentious Relationship
Barbara Bush had actually started out liking the color red, but when she was told that it was Nancy Reagan’s “color,” she was advised to take blue, a shade she so embraced as her own that “Bush Blue” became an… Read More ›
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Betty Ford’s Centennial: A Vibrant Life in Videos & Hundreds of Pictures
My work as an historian, researcher and author of books on the American First Ladies and the political power and cultural influence they possess overlapped a timeline during which nine women who held that unofficial position were alive and helped… Read More ›
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Five Forgotten Feminist First Ladies
Throughout March, many forgotten and overlooked women have been been credited with the bravery, strength, foresight, fairness and honesty they displayed and exemplified in their lifetimes, however belatedly, and who now offer the legacy of example. As happens with all… Read More ›
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Presidential, First Lady, White House Memorabilia Auction Sale Now On
The auction of my presidential memorabilia collection on Everything But the House has begun. Nearly 200 lots, almost all with multiple items of Presidents, First Ladies, First Families representing those from George and Martha Washington to Barack and Michelle Obama,… Read More ›
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Presidents, First Ladies & February’s Princess: Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s Century of Chief Executive Friends
This time of year was always one of milestones for the woman dubbed by the press as the nation’s first “Princess,” Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the eldest child of President Theodore Roosevelt, the wife of Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth,… Read More ›
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Cat & Bird: When Actress Eartha Kitt Challenged First Lady Johnson on the Vietnam War
The year 1968 was one of the most tumultuous experienced among the American people; enormous social change was underway. Protests, pickets and riots that year marked the start of what emerged as the national Black Power Movement and the Women’s… Read More ›
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Melania Trump’s Independence from the President has First Lady Precedence
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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Swinging Sixties Secretaries & Sexual Harassment: The 1967 Movie Musical That First Confronted It
Sometimes a catchy tune can say it better than editorials or protest rallies. Among the most revelations about Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment towards women who worked for him or auditioned for a role in one of his films,… Read More ›
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Ivana Be First Lady: Trump Wives Tales, A President Who Married His Niece & Other Multiple-Wife Presidencies
Most Americans are entirely unaware of the scandalous fact that a President lived in the White House at the same time with both of his wives. And there was that sensitive First Lady who was so jealous over the first… Read More ›