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 ›
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George Washington’s Birthday: He Spent it Dancing
It wasn’t the Twist like Jackie Kennedy loved doing, or the Dougie as Michelle Obama has illustrated. It wasn’t the foxtrot that the very large William Howard Taft moved to like a graceful battleship, nor even the frug as President Lyndon B…. Read More ›
A White House Super Bowl Party Menu of Favorite Presidential Foods
Whether it’s been an isolated President and First Lady at Camp David, their First Family and First Friends in the White House private quarters or a large rollicking crowd with conflicting team loyalties, White House Super Bowl parties are a… Read More ›
First Ladies & the State of the Union Address: Private Speech Editors and Public Policy Symbols
Tomorrow’s State of the Union Address, delivered by President Barack Obama on Capitol Hill, may seem like it has always been a part of American life, but in fact it is one custom of the American Presidencybegun by George Washington… Read More ›
When a First Lady Battles a President’s Chief of Staff
The conflict between First Lady Michelle Obama and the President’s first Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel exposed in the book The Obamas by New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor may offer new insights into the popular presidential wife’s political acumen… Read More ›
The White House Christmas Party in Rare Photo Glimpses
If a picture is worth a thousand words, here is a small book’s worth of stories about what one glimpses in the White House when one’s lucky enough to be among the few thousands of guests invited to the President’s… Read More ›
Michelle Obama at Target: Jackie Kennedy in wigs or Jane Pierce in mourning, First Ladies get Out, About & Undercover
It may seem shocking, but really, it is only unexpected. Yesterday, after one enterprising photographer and one shocked checkout clerk let the cat out of the bag that First Lady Michelle Obama had spent about a half hour doing something… Read More ›
Presidents, First Ladies, Kings & Queens
President Barack Obama’s European visit this week marks the second time he will meet with Queen Elizabeth of England. Although the British monarch’s constitutional power is not equal to that of the American president’s, they meet equally as heads of… Read More ›
Michelle Obama Soldiers On, Renewing a First Lady Tradition
Michelle Obama went to West Point yesterday, the first incumbent First Lady to address a graduating cadet class. Some in-depth research shows, however, that she was not the first to visit the nation’s most prestigious school for Army officer training…. Read More ›
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