Whore, Hayseed, Bigamist, Bigot, Slut, Snob, Drunk: Candidate Wives As...
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...
View ArticleFirst 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...
View ArticleThe First Ladies Tour in Photos, A Tradition Since 1908
Michelle Obama hosted a “tea and tour” meeting today with Melania Trump, after the latter accepted the invitation of the former, to discuss living in the White House and public expectations faced by...
View ArticleFirst 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...
View ArticleA Dozen First Lady Fourths: Presidential Wives’ Independence Days Radically...
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...
View ArticleMelania 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...
View ArticleBarbara 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”...
View ArticleBarbara 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...
View ArticleMelania Trump’ Hospitalization: What the Public Is Told About a First Lady’s...
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...
View ArticleMelania Trump v. John Kelly: First Ladies & West Wing Personnel, A Brief History
The news reports which broke yesterday caught even the most assiduous chroniclers of the man occupying the presidency and his wife by surprise. It was the First Lady Melania Trump, regarded as...
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