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Frank’s First Ladies: Sinatra & Jackie, Nancy, & Eleanor
Eleanor Roosevelt and Frank Sinatra at a 1947 Democratic Party fundraiser where he shows off a statue of FDR and then a decade later. She also appeared on his television show. He started as an avid...
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What Helen Thomas Really Thought of First Ladies she Covered
United Press International reporter Helen Thomas stands in front of the White House West Wing, 1962. (Corbis) For nearly an entire half a century, United Press International reporter Helen Thomas, who...
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Michelle Obama’s 50th Birthday: When First Families Party at the White House
Michelle Obama celebrates her first birthday as First Lady in 2010 with members of her professional staff. The Chicago Tribune reports that two weeks from this coming Saturday, the White House will...
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Inside Reagan’s 1950s General Electric “Home of the Future”
Ronald, Nancy, Patti and Ron Reagan in their Pacific Palisades home. Despite the fact that he’d served two full terms as governor of California, the nation’s most populous and prosperous state, when...
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A Movie Star First Lady: Nancy Reagan’s Hollywood Acting Career
The year they went from being Hollywood stars to political figures, Ronald and Nancy Reagan arriving for the 1966 Ambassador’s Ball at the new Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. You OR OR
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First Ladies in China: Jackie Onassis Kidnapped, Pat Nixon’s Coat, Lou...
Betty Ford gets a dancing lesson from a group of communist Chinese ballet students in Beijing, December 3, 1975. (english.cri.cn) On March 19, First Lady Michelle Obama became the fifteenth American...
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First Ladies & Their Mothers
Emma Folsom and her daughter Frances Cleveland at the time of her marriage to the President in 1886. There was a time when the best a mother might hope for in terms of her daughter rising to the...
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First Ladies Live Longer: Top-Secret White House Fountain of Youth?
Five of the Ten Longest-Living First Ladies gathered in 1991 for the Reagan Library dedication: Lady Bird Johnson, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Rosalynn Carter and Betty Ford. Pat Nixon, also in the...
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First Ladies, Headscarves & History: A Photo Gallery
Following a tradition of American First Ladies and other official women Michelle Obama did not wear a head scarf, stands behind her husband the President of the United States as he greets Saudi...
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First Ladies, Swimsuit Edition: Bikinis to Bonnets to Bloomers
Who is the mystery First Lady emerging from a snorkeling session in her bikini? In the beginning, First Ladies were given no dispensation when it came to figuratively swimming in their bathing suits...
View ArticleWhen First Ladies Met Popes: A Photo Essay, 1841-2015
Last week, Roman Catholic Pope Francis made his first trip to the United States. Upon his arrival in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, Barack Obama welcomed the Pope to Washington directly at the airport,...
View ArticleThe Candidates’ Spouses: Not All Cute Little Buttons
For far longer than conventional wisdom would have us believe, Americans voting for a President et of the United States have given consideration to a matter that had – at least on the surface – nothing...
View ArticleNancy Reagan: Untold Stories From A Speechwriter & Historian
In light of the death of Nancy Reagan this morning and in response to media inquiries, Carl Anthony Online will be publishing a series of articles over the next few days giving focus to some of the...
View ArticleNancy Reagan & Jackie Kennedy Onassis: Their Untold Story
“What about Jackie?” The first person Nancy Reagan asked me about was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. I’d never flown in a helicopter before, let alone the presidential one, but there I was in the sky,...
View ArticleNancy Reagan’s Funeral Follows First Lady Tradition
There is at least one custom common among those who’ve lived in the White House and all who have not. Friends, family and colleagues of everyday folk gather for christenings, graduations, weddings and,...
View ArticleWhore, 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, Headscarves & History: A Photo Gallery
Simply put, it is much ado about nothing, which makes it a lot about something else. With all the global media attention focused on the fact that Michelle Obama did not wear a traditional Muslim head...
View ArticleFirst Ladies, Swimsuit Edition: Bikinis to Bonnets to Bloomers
In the beginning, First Ladies were given no dispensation when it came to figuratively swimming in their bathing suits alongside the Presidents. Regardless of their nationally elevated marital status,...
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