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The first lady of the United States is the hostess of the White House.The position is traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, but, on occasion, the title has been applied to women who were not presidents' wives, such as when the president was a bachelor or widower, or when the wife of the president was unable to fulfill the duties of the first lady.
First Ladies: The Saga of the Presidents' Wives and Their Power (2 vols.). New York: William Morrow and Co. Beasley, M. H. (2005). First ladies and the Press: The Unfinished Partnership for the Media Age. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. [2] Black, A. M. (2019). The First Ladies of the United States of America. Washington D.C ...
The 1895 building, formerly the City National Bank Building, was given to the National First Ladies’ Library in 1997. The first floor features a theater, a large exhibit and meeting space and a small library room with a collection of books that replicates First Lady Abigail Fillmore's collection for the first White House Library. The center's ...
Based on C-SPAN's history series, First Ladies: Influence and Image, the book features interviews with more than fifty preeminent historians and biographers. A must-read for all First Lady fans ...
First African American first lady. [85] First first lady to attend an Ivy League university for her undergraduate degree. She majored in sociology and minored in African-American studies at Princeton University. [86] [87] [88] First first lady to announce the winner of an Oscar (Best Picture which went to Argo). [89]
In 2008, "First Ladies at the Smithsonian" opened at the National Museum of American History as part of its reopening year celebration. That exhibition served as a bridge to the museum's expanded exhibition on first ladies' history that opened on November 19, 2011. "The First Ladies" explores the unofficial but important position of first lady ...
Fourteen first ladies of the United States have written a total of twenty-three memoirs. The first lady is the hostess of the White House, and the position is traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, with some historical exceptions. Every memoir by a first lady published in the 20th and 21st centuries has been a ...
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