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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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 ›
All the Presidents’ Campaign Posters: Stars & Stripes Every Which Way
The art of politics is a deft game, played in many shades of many colors. Unlike presidential campaign posters, which inevitably uses red, white and blue. There is an art to everything, certainly when it comes to electing a President… Read More ›
Whore, Hayseed, Bigamist, Bigot, Slut, Snob, Drunk: Candidate Wives As Campaign Issues
Earlier this week, another malicious skirmish broke out on the presidential campaign trail. First came an advertisement from a wing of the Stop-Trump movement using an old advertising photograph of the the candidate’s wife Melania Trump, a former model, showing… Read More ›
2016 Presidential Candidates Most Ethnically Diverse in History
Love them or hate them, they’re running for President. Apart from the obvious fact that one is a woman and one is an African-American, the current panel of presidential candidates facing off as either Republicans or Democrats during the 2016… Read More ›
The Candidates’ Spouses: Not All Cute Little Buttons
For far longer than conventional wisdom would have us believe, Americans voting for a President et of the United States have given consideration to a matter that had – at least on the surface – nothing to do with policy…. Read More ›
When First Ladies Met Popes: A Photo Essay, 1841-2015
Last week, Roman Catholic Pope Francis made his first trip to the United States. Upon his arrival in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, Barack Obama welcomed the Pope to Washington directly at the airport, rather than wait for his arrival at… Read More ›
Liz Taylor’s Bess Truman Shoe Story & Other White House Encounters
When they came together on January 7, 1946 for a scripted public service announcement over the CBS radio network, live from the ground-floor broadcast room of the White House, it seemed like there couldn’t be two more polar opposite individuals… Read More ›
First Ladies, Swimsuit Edition: Bikinis to Bonnets to Bloomers
In the beginning, First Ladies were given no dispensation when it came to figuratively swimming in their bathing suits alongside the Presidents. Regardless of their nationally elevated marital status, they were expected to lead their countrywomen by example. So it… Read More ›
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