Which of the First Ladies of the U.S. most enjoyed the role?
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« on: May 02, 2017, 12:44:48 PM »

Which of the First Ladies of the United States most enjoyed the role?

I think Nancy Reagan.

Please share your thoughts on who you believe most enjoyed being First Lady.
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« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2017, 04:30:38 PM »

The incumbent, Jared Kushner.
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« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2017, 07:40:30 PM »

Hillary Clinton
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« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2017, 09:39:33 AM »


Thank you Old School Republican for providing a serious answer.
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« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2017, 10:01:26 AM »
« Edited: May 05, 2017, 08:57:51 PM by Lincoln Republican »

I do not know how much First Lady Edith Wilson, wife of Woodrow Wilson, enjoyed the role of First Lady, but when President Wilson suffered a stroke in October, 1919, she certainly overstepped her bounds as First Lady and assumed powers she had no business assuming, and what's more, she was allowed to get away with it.

So if she enjoyed  exercising presidential powers she must have enjoyed this part of being First Lady very much.

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President Wilson suffered a severe stroke in October 1919. Edith Wilson began to screen all matters of state and decided which were important enough to bring to the bedridden president. In doing so, she de facto ran the executive branch of the government for the remainder of the president's second term, until March 1921. She was the first First Lady to assume presidential functions.
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« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2017, 11:18:23 AM »

Betty Ford, Laura Bush, Michelle Obama
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« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2017, 03:18:37 PM »

Eleanor Roosevelt by far.
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« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2017, 04:53:01 PM »

Betty Ford, Laura Bush, Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama hated it, and Laura Bush didn't like it much either.
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« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2017, 09:15:21 PM »


She was certainly the most empowered First Lady.
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« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2017, 04:47:25 AM »

And also the one who was First Lady the longest of them all.
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« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2017, 02:01:55 AM »
« Edited: May 07, 2017, 02:15:43 AM by Shadows »

This legendary woman who has dozens of iconic quotes -

(As First Lady, she traveled across the nation visiting various New Deal projects and reporting back on their implementation. And in 1939, after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let Marian Anderson, a black singer, perform in their auditorium, she resigned from the organization in protest.

She did actually use her unique position of propinquity to prod him into pointing his presidential power at the issues that she cared about. Each night, she sent him a basket of memos concerning topics she felt deserved his attention, and often inundated him with so many memos that he finally limited her to no more than three a night
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« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2017, 04:11:09 AM »

Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan.
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« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2017, 05:43:07 AM »
« Edited: May 07, 2017, 05:48:11 AM by Shadows »

For me there's not much of a debate & there's only 1 right answer - Eleanor Roosevelt, who stands taller & greater than probably all First Lady's combined.

Anyways more about Eleanor (for all those who don't know)

She persuaded Franklin to stay in politics after he was stricken with debilitating polio in 1921, which cost him the normal use of his legs, and Roosevelt began giving speeches and appearing at campaign events in his place. Following Franklin's election as Governor of New York in 1928, and throughout the remainder of Franklin's public career in government, Roosevelt regularly made public appearances on his behalf, and as First Lady while her husband served as President, she significantly reshaped and redefined the role of that office during her own tenure and beyond, for future First Ladies. In 1949, she was made an honorary member of the historically black organization Alpha Kappa Alpha. She was an early supporter of the Encampment for Citizenship, a non-profit organization that conducts residential summer programs with year-round follow-up for young people of widely diverse backgrounds and nations.

Though widely respected in her later years, Roosevelt was a controversial First Lady at the time for her outspokenness, particularly her stance on racial issues. She was the first presidential spouse to hold regular press conferences, write a daily newspaper column, write a monthly magazine column, host a weekly radio show, and speak at a national party convention. On a few occasions, she publicly disagreed with her husband's policies. She launched an experimental community at Arthurdale, West Virginia, for the families of unemployed miners, later widely regarded as a failure. She advocated for expanded roles for women in the workplace, the civil rights of African Americans and Asian Americans, and the rights of World War II refugees.

Following her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt remained active in politics for the remaining 17 years of her life. She pressed the United States to join and support the United Nations and became its first delegate. She served as the first chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights, and oversaw the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Later she chaired the John F. Kennedy administration's Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. By the time of her death, Roosevelt was regarded as "one of the most esteemed women in the world"; she was called "the object of almost universal respect" in her New York Times obituary. In 1999, she was ranked ninth in the top ten of Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century.

The Eleanor Roosevelt Monument in New York's Riverside Park was dedicated in 1996, with First Lady Hillary Clinton serving as the keynote speaker. It is said to be the first monument to an American president's wife. In 1998, the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights was established by the then-President of the United States Bill Clinton, honoring outstanding American promoters of rights in the United States. The award was first awarded on the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, honoring Eleanor Roosevelt's role as the "driving force" in the development of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Gallup Organization published the poll Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century, to determine which people around the world Americans most admired for what they did in the 20th century in 1999. Eleanor Roosevelt came in ninth.

Gallup's Result of Americans on most admired people in the 20th Century -

1. Mother Teresa
2. Martin Luther King, Jr.
3. John F. Kennedy
4. Albert Einstein
5. Helen Keller
6. Franklin D. Roosevelt
7. Billy Graham
8. Pope John Paul II
9. Eleanor Roosevelt
10. Winston Churchill
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« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2017, 07:15:46 PM »





"That's what we're here on this earth for, to help others."
"Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help."

Gerald and Betty Ford were not among the greatest couples to ever inhabit the White House, but rather among the most good. And I challenge any of you to tell me that you feel, deep down, that being a good person is better and more to be sought after than the false cry of greatness.
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« Reply #14 on: June 15, 2017, 03:48:10 PM »

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And Grace Coolidge conversely stayed out of politics but still managed to keep up the spirits even after the traumatic death of her son in 1924. She seemed to relish the social life of Washington when he became VP in 1921. She did serve as hostess for a big party in '27 celebrating Lindbergh's transatlantic crossing. He was 'Silent Cal' - she was the first First Lady to be heard on newsreels. Maybe she enjoyed the more traditional role and was active in the Red Cross and other charities both as First Lady and afterward.

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« Reply #15 on: June 15, 2017, 08:36:29 PM »

Edith taking over was simply proving what I have always said: the Wilsonian-Rooseveltian Democrats would have definitely been Federalists. They indicated a fake "neutrality" that was obviously pro-British, they were dynastic(top Federalists argued for a hereditary Senate, even!), and they indicated similarly expansive ideas in government, as well as harsh suppression of more radical opponents.
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