The news breaking on Monday, May 14, 2018 that First Lady Melania Trump was at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for kidney surgery wasn’t learned through leaks to the New York Times, nor revealed by a lawyer on… Read More ›
Florence Harding
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 ›
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 ›
A Dozen First Lady Fourths: Presidential Wives’ Independence Days Radically Diverse
Since that day of July 4, 1776. when its independence was first declared by the American colonies upon the ratification of the Declaration of Independence, the United States has marked Independence Day for 240 years. It was only thirteen years… Read More ›
First Ladies On The Steps & In the Car Together: A Century-Old Tradition
Yesterday’s inauguration offered one new precedent – a lavishly iced Inaugural Cake in shades of red, white and blue, sliced by the new president at one of the balls. The Tiffany box gift presented by Melania Trump to Michelle Obama,… Read More ›
First Ladies Voting: An Illustrated History of the Right to Ballot
First Ladies have not been voting as long as Presidents. It was not until the 1920 presidential election when there was “universal” suffrage, decreed by the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution and becoming the law of the land in… Read More ›
A President in Alaska: Ninety Rare Images of Harding’s Fatal Trip
This very day, ninety-two years ago, Americans awoke to newspaper and radio reports of the President’s sudden death in San Francisco’s Palace Hotel, while he was in the middle of what was intended to be a two-month tour of the… 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 ›
Ten Election Day Moments of Presidential Families
Which Presidential candidate wins on Election Day is obviously of importance to the nation and the world, as the citizens, financial institutions, losing political party and hundreds of other institutions, organizations and individuals anticipate the winner carrying out their campaign… Read More ›
The First President To Win With Actors: Al Jolson’s 1920 Campaign Song for Harding
George Clooney, fundraising and providing thematic strategy for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign or Clint Eastwood speaking at the convention nominating Mitt Romney: neither story causes a blink in either Hollywood or Washington. Yet preceding even the famous efforts of… Read More ›
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