First Ladies' Private Lives
In the early decades of the republic a president's wife, like other wives, seldom displayed her private life to the...
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Created February 7, 1981.
Mrs. Reagan stands in the Red Room of the White House for this official photograph. Behind her is a portrait of Angelica Singleton Van Buren, and beside her a marble-topped center table made by Charles-Honoré Lannuier in New York and dating from about 1810. In 1982 the oak floors in the Red Room were refurbished, and a rug with a French design placed overtop. The silk wall coverings were replaced, and eight pieces of Red Room furniture in the room were conserved.
In the early decades of the republic a president's wife, like other wives, seldom displayed her private life to the...
Martha WashingtonAbigail AdamsMartha JeffersonDolley MadisonElizabeth MonroeLouisa AdamsRachel Jackson / Emily DonelsonHannah Van Buren / Angelica Van BurenAnna Harrison / Jane HarrisonLetitia Tyler / Julia...
"I detest him so much that I don't even think his wife is beautiful," said one of President Grover Cleveland's...
"I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else, there is certain bounds set for me which...
Whistle-stopping in 1948, President Truman often ended his talk by introducing his wife as "the Boss" and his daughter, Margaret, as "...
Born in 1803, Sarah Childress grew up on a plantation near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Elder daughter of a Captain, she gained something...
Rarely has a first lady been greeted by the American people and the press with the approbation and warmth accorded...
Admirably equipped to preside at the White House, Lou Henry Hoover had experience as wife of a man eminent in...
Edith Kermit Carow knew Theodore Roosevelt from infancy; as a toddler she became a playmate of his younger sister Corinne....
The centennial of President Washington's inauguration heightened the nation's interest in its heroic past, and in 1890 Caroline Scott Harrison lent h...
As a girlhood companion remembered her, Mary Todd was vivacious and impulsive, but "she now and then could not restrain...
Chester Alan Arthur's beloved "Nell" died of pneumonia on January 12, 1880. That November, when he was elected vice president, he was...