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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 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]
The following is an incomplete list of first ladies and gentlemen of New York. Cornelia Clinton (1777–1795) Sarah Livingston Jay (1795–1801) Gertrude Lewis (1804–1807) Hannah Tompkins (1807–1817) Margarita Tayler (1817) Maria Clinton (1817–1818) Catharine Clinton (1819–1823, 1825–1827) Evelina Throop (1829–1832) Cornelia Marcy ...
When asked how they felt the Texas native was handling her job as the first lady, Americans gave Laura Bush historically high approval ratings over the course of three years -- with a 74 percent ...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-375-40766-6. Brower, Kate Andersen (2015). The Residence: Inside the Private World of The White House. New York: Harper. ISBN 978-0-06-230519-0. Burns, Lisa M. (2008). First Ladies and the Fourth Estate: Press Framing of Presidential Wives. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press.
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 ...
First Ladies. New York: Random House. Watson, R. P. (2004). Life in the White House: A Social History of the First Family and the President's House. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Wead, D. (2004). All The Presidents' Children: Triumph And Tragedy In The Lives Of America's First Families. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster. [d]
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