Thursday, April 26, 2018

First Ladies and American Women

Today I went to Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library to listen to the lecture that Jill Abraham Hummer discussed her new book - First Ladies and American Women.

During her lecture, Dr. Hummer explored how background, personality, ambitions, and her respective relationship to the president shaped each first lady's response to women in society and to the broader political context in which each administration functioned - and how, in turn, these singular responses reflect the changing role of women in American society over a century.

What I like most is one of the quotes by Betty Ford

"The greatest desire of my life was to be half as perfect as my mother was".

                                                                                                     —— to all the Mothers



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