Posted on 01/15/2024 11:23:05 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
Earlier today I went and posted this thread...
The last good Vice President.
01/15/2024 | Everyone
Lively discusion. X broached the topic of First Ladies. So I thought - as we wait on the Iowa Caucus - I'd bring up First Ladies.
So. Who's the Best First Lady we've ever had? Who was the Worst? (Hillary or the Mooch)
Jill Biden
Melania Trump
Michelle Obama
Laura Bush
Hillary Clinton
Barbara Bush
Nancy Reagan
Rosalynn Carter
Betty Ford
Pat Nixon
Lady Bird Johnson
Jackie Kennedy
Mamie Eisenhower
Bess Truman
Eleanor Roosevelt
etc.
ping
If I were to pick a democrat first lady that I admired it would be Lady Bird Johnson. She did more to beautify America than anyone else I know. And being married to LBJ? She also had class and dignity.
She was into the occult too much for my liking.
Regardless how we feel about her hubby, Laura Bush was a great First Lady.
Abigail
What categories are we judging the first ladies on? Looks? Class? As far as worst looks, I’d say Eleanor Roosevelt. Boy, was she a dog.
Pat Nixon.
other must be Mike
Big Mike has to be the worst.
I like most First Ladies better than I like their husbands.
I forgot about that.
But at least she didn’t have seances with Eleanor Roosevelt.
Mamie Eisenhower and Melania Trump
Pick any aspect of any first lady. Good or bad. Comment on it.
Open thread.
Naturally sasquatch would think of Mike.
(lol)
My criteria is, the less they were heard, the better.
Yes, I loved Nancy Reagan. She got a bad rap from the press but she was great! Melania was very good and got a worse rap from the press.
Dolly Madison. With British troops bearing down on Washington DC intent on burning The White House she rescued valuable documents which included the original copy of the Constitution.
She barely made it out of DC with the British hot on her heels. Now there’s a gal with hair on her chest.
Worst - may I nominate Edith Wilson? I know it’s hard to imagine a First Lady climbing over the decrepit body of her husband to really run the country...isn’t it...
I can see that. Both of them stayed in the background, kept their mouths shut and didn’t interfere.
However - Melania has made it known that she would rather stay away from politics and the White House. But she hasn’t complained about it.
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