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30 Responses to US Presidents of the Democratic Party

1. CR says:

   02/17/2013 at 12:02 pm

   

   Sunday, February 17, 2013

   All Times Eastern

   President Obama receives the presidential daily briefing while on his weekend vacation
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   Vice President Biden and family are on their weekend vacation in SnowmassCO

   First Lady Michelle and her daughters are on their weekend vacation in Aspen, CO

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   • CR says:

     02/17/2013 at 12:02 pm

     

     February 17, 2013

     WhiteHouse.gov http://www.whitehouse.gov/live

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2. CR says:

   02/17/2013 at 12:02 pm

   

   Presidents’ Day

   Washington’s Birthday is a United States federal holiday celebrated on the third Monday of February in honor of George Washington, the first President of the United States. It is also commonly known as Presidents Day (sometimes spelled Presidents’ Day or President’s Day). As Washington’s Birthday or Presidents Day, it is also the official name of a concurrent state holiday celebrated on the same day in a number of states.

   Titled Washington’s Birthday, a federal holiday honoring George Washington was originally implemented by an Act of Congress in 1880 for government offices in the District of Columbia (20 Stat. 277) and expanded in 1885 to include all federal offices (23 Stat. 516). As the first federal holiday to honor an American citizen, the holiday was celebrated on Washington’s actual birthday, February 22. On January 1, 1971, the federal holiday was shifted to the third Monday in February by the Uniform Monday Holiday Act.

   Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidents%27_Day
   • CR says:

     02/17/2013 at 12:02 pm

     US Presidents of the Democratic Party

     * John Quincy Adams

     President Adams was Well aware that he would face hostility in Congress, Adams nevertheless proclaimed in his first Annual Message a spectacular national program. He proposed that the Federal Government bring the sections together with a network of highways and canals, and that it develop and conserve the public domain, using funds from the sale of public lands. In 1828, he broke ground for the 185-mile C & 0 Canal.

     Adams also urged the United States to take a lead in the development of the arts and sciences through the establishment of a national university, the financing of scientific expeditions, and the erection of an observatory. His critics declared such measures transcended constitutional limitations.

     * James Buchanan

     * James Carter

     Jimmy Carter aspired to make Government “competent and compassionate,” responsive to the American people and their expectations. His achievements were notable, but in an era of rising energy costs, mounting inflation, and continuing tensions, it was impossible for his administration to meet these high expectations.

     He dealt with the energy shortage by establishing a national energy policy and by decontrolling domestic petroleum prices to stimulate production. He prompted Government efficiency through civil service reform and proceeded with deregulation of the trucking and airline industries. He sought to improve the environment. His expansion of the national park system included protection of 103 million acres of Alaskan lands. To increase human and social services, he created the Department of Education, bolstered the Social Security system, and appointed record numbers of women, blacks, and Hispanics to Government jobs.

     * Grover Cleveland

     Cleveland vigorously pursued a policy barring special favors to any economic group. Vetoing a bill to appropriate $10,000 to distribute seed grain among drought-stricken farmers in Texas, he wrote: “Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character. . . . ”

     He angered the railroads by ordering an investigation of western lands they held by Government grant. He forced them to return 81,000,000 acres. He also signed the Interstate Commerce Act, the first law attempting Federal regulation of the railroads.

     * William J. Clinton

     During the administration of William Jefferson Clinton, the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic well being than at any time in its history.

     He could point to the lowest unemployment rate in modern times, the lowest inflation in 30 years, the highest home ownership in the country’s history, dropping crime rates in many places, and reduced welfare rolls. He proposed the first balanced budget in decades and achieved a budget surplus. As part of a plan to celebrate the millennium in 2000, Clinton called for a great national initiative to end racial discrimination.

     * Andrew Jackson

     * Thomas Jefferson

     In the thick of party conflict in 1800, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a private letter, “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

     As the “silent member” of the Congress, Jefferson, at 33, drafted the Declaration of Independence. In years following he labored to make its words a reality in Virginia. Most notably, he wrote a bill establishing religious freedom, enacted in 1786.

     When Jefferson assumed the Presidency, the crisis in France had passed. He slashed Army and Navy expenditures, cut the budget, eliminated the tax on whiskey so unpopular in the West, yet reduced the national debt by a third.

     * Andrew Johnson

     * Lyndon B. Johnson

     In the 1960 campaign, Lyndon B Johnson, as John F. Kennedy’s running mate, was elected Vice President. On November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated, Johnson was sworn in as President.

     First he obtained enactment of the measures President Kennedy had been urging at the time of his death–a new civil rights bill and a tax cut. Next he urged the Nation “to build a great society, a place where the meaning of man’s life matches the marvels of man’s labor.”

     The “Great Society” program became Johnson’s agenda for Congress in January 1965: aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime and delinquency, removal of obstacles to the right to vote. Congress, at times augmenting or amending, rapidly enacted Johnson’s recommendations. Millions of elderly people found succor through the 1965 Medicare amendment to the Social Security Act.

     * John F. Kennedy

     On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin’s bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas.

     He took vigorous action in the cause of equal rights, calling for new civil rights legislation. His vision of America extended to the quality of the national culture and the central role of the arts in a vital society.

     He wished America to resume its old mission as the first nation dedicated to the revolution of human rights. With the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps, he brought American idealism to the aid of developing nations

     * James Madison

     James Madison made a major contribution to the ratification of the Constitution by writing, with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, the Federalist essays. In later years, when he was referred to as the “Father of the Constitution,” Madison protested that the document was not “the off-spring of a single brain,” but “the work of many heads and many hands.”

     In Congress, he helped frame the Bill of Rights and enact the first revenue legislation. Out of his leadership in opposition to Hamilton’s financial proposals, which he felt would unduly bestow wealth and power upon northern financiers, came the development of the Republican, or Jeffersonian, Party.

     * James Monroe

     James Monroe is known for being credited with the Moroe Doctrine. The Doctrine noted that the United States would neither interfere with existing European colonies nor meddle in the internal concerns of European countries. The Doctrine was issued at a time when nearly all Latin American colonies of Spain and Portugal had achieved independence from the Spanish Empire (except Cuba and Puerto Rico) and the Portuguese Empire.

     * Barack Obama

     The inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President took place on January 20, 2009. In his first few days in office, Obama issued executive orders and presidential memoranda directing the U.S. military to develop plans to withdraw troops from Iraq. He ordered the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, but Congress prevented the closure by refusing to appropriate the required funds. Obama reduced the secrecy given to presidential records. He also revoked President George W. Bush’s restoration of President Ronald Reagan’s Mexico City Policy prohibiting federal aid to international family planning organizations that perform or provide counseling about abortion.

     Domestic policy
     The first bill signed into law by Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, relaxing the statute of limitations for equal-pay lawsuits. Five days later, he signed the reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to cover an additional 4 million uninsured children. In March 2009, Obama reversed a Bush-era policy which had limited funding of embryonic stem cell research and pledged to develop “strict guidelines” on the research.

     Obama appointed two women to serve on the Supreme Court in the first two years of his Presidency. Sonia Sotomayor, nominated by Obama on May 26, 2009, to replace retiring Associate Justice David Souter, was confirmed on August 6, 2009, becoming the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice.

     September 30, 2009, the Obama administration proposed new regulations on power plants, factories and oil refineries in an attempt to limit greenhouse gas emissions and to curb global warming.

     October 8, 2009, Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, a measure that expands the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim’s actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.

     March 30, 2010, Obama signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, a reconciliation bill which ends the process of the federal government giving subsidies to private banks to give out federally insured loans, increases the Pell Grant scholarship award, and makes changes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

     December 22, 2010, Obama signed the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010, fulfilling a key promise made in the 2008 presidential campaign[148][149] to end the Don’t ask, don’t tell policy of 1993 that had prevented gay and lesbian people from serving openly in the United States Armed Forces.

     February 17, 2009, Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, a $787 billion economic stimulus package aimed at helping the economy recover from the deepening worldwide recession.

     March, Obama’s Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, took further steps to manage the financial crisis, including introducing the Public-Private Investment Program for Legacy Assets, which contains provisions for buying up to two trillion dollars in depreciated real estate assets.

     As it did throughout 2008, the unemployment rate rose in 2009, reaching a peak in October at 10.0% and averaging 10.0% in the fourth quarter and by November 2012, the unemployment rate fell to 7.7%. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama#Presidency)

     GDP growth returned in the third quarter of 2009, expanding at a rate of 1.6%, followed by a 5.0% increase in the fourth quarter.[181] Growth continued in 2010, posting an increase of 3.7% in the first quarter, with lesser gains throughout the rest of the year. (Source: http://goo.gl/TxeE9)

     “From fiscal 2009 to fiscal 2012, the deficit shrank 3.1 percentage points, from 10.1% to 7.0% of GDP,” reports Investors Business Daily, citing figures from the Congressional Budget Office. IBD notes that that larger-than-expected returns from bank bailouts, slowing growth in Medicare costs, the drawdown in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the $900 billion in already enacted Budget Control Act cuts also helped curb the deficit. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama#Presidency)

     * Franklin Pierce

     * James K. Polk

     James Polk reestablish the Independent Treasury System, reduced tariffs, acquired all of Oregon Country, acquired California and New Mexico from Mexico.

     In 1846, Polk approved a law restoring the Independent Treasury System, under which government funds were held in the Treasury and not in banks or other financial institutions. This established independent treasury deposit offices, separate from private or state banks, to receive all government funds.

     * Franklin D. Roosevelt

     Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

     He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. In his first “hundred days,” he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, and reform, especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

     By 1935 the Nation had achieved some measure of recovery, but businessmen and bankers were turning more and more against Roosevelt’s New Deal program.

     They feared his experiments, were appalled because he had taken the Nation off the gold standard and allowed deficits in the budget, and disliked the concessions to labor. Roosevelt responded with a new program of reform: Social Security, heavier taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the unemployed.

     * Harry S. Truman

     * Martin Van Buren

     * Woodrow Wilson

     Like Roosevelt before him, Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. “No one but the President,” he said, “seems to be expected … to look out for the general interests of the country.” He developed a program of progressive reform and asserted international leadership in building a new world order.

     Wilson maneuvered through Congress three major pieces of legislation. The first was a lower tariff, the Underwood Act; attached to the measure was a graduated Federal income tax. The passage of the Federal Reserve Act provided the Nation with the more elastic money supply it badly needed. In 1914 antitrust legislation established a Federal Trade Commission to prohibit unfair business practices.

     Another burst of legislation followed in 1916. One new law prohibited child labor; another limited railroad workers to an eight-hour day.

     Wilson concluded that America could not remain neutral in the World War II. On April 2,1917, he asked Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.

     Massive American effort slowly tipped the balance in favor of the Allies. Wilson went before Congress in January 1918, to enunciate American war aims–the Fourteen Points, the last of which would establish “A general association of nations…affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.”

     After the Germans signed the Armistice in November 1918, Wilson went to Paris to try to build an enduring peace. He later presented to the Senate the Versailles Treaty, containing the Covenant of the League of Nations, and asked, “Dare we reject it and break the heart of the world?”
   • CR says:

     02/17/2013 at 12:03 pm

     Jefferson Descendants

     Uploaded on Dec 11, 2010

     Thomas Jefferson and Sally Heming‘s Descendants
   • CR says:

     05/08/2013 at 12:56 pm

     30+ Ways Obama-Biden Are Fighting For You 

     #31 REDUCING GUN VIOLENCE

     #30 INSURING YOUNG AMERICANS

     #29 SUPREME COURT NOMINATIONS

     #28 PROTECTING A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO MAKE HEALTH DECISIONS

     #27 WORKING TO REDUCE THE DEFICIT

     #26 EXPANDING HEALTH CARE ACCESS FOR VETERANS

     #25 REDUCING OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL

     #24 BELIEVING IN THE DREAM

     #23 NATION-BUILDING HERE AT HOME

     #22 IMPROVING WOMEN’S HEALTH CARE

     #21 INVESTING IN COMMUNITY COLLEGES, OUR STUDENTS, AND OUR WORKERS

     #20 SUPPORTING EQUALITY

     #19 STRENGTHENING MEDICARE

     #18  DOUBLING FUEL STANDARDS

     #17 ADDING MANUFACTURING JOBS

     #16 TAKING THE FIGHT TO AL QAEDA

     #15 COVERING CONTRACEPTION

     #14 REPEALING “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL”

     #13 CREATING CLEAN-ENERGY JOBS

     #12 ENDING HEALTH CARE INEQUALITY

     #11 LOOKING OUT FOR MAIN STREET

     #10 REFORMING AMERICAN EDUCATION

     #9 BUILDING A CLEAN-ENERGY ECONOMY

     #8 HELPING OUR VETERANS AFFORD COLLEGE

     #7 CUTTING MIDDLE-CLASS TAXES

     #6 FIGHTING FOR EQUAL PAY

     #5 FIGHTING FOR STUDENTS

     #4 SUPPORTING RURAL SMALL BUSINESSES

     #3 ENDING THE WAR

     #2 SAVING THE AUTO INDUSTRY

     #1 33 CONSECUTIVE MONTHS OF JOB GROWTH
3. CR says:

   02/17/2013 at 12:04 pm

   Report: Bill would set an 8-year path to residency

   2/16/13 By ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Associated Press

   WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is circulating a draft immigration bill that would create a new visa for illegal immigrants living in the United States and allow them to become legal permanent residents within eight years, according to a report published online Saturday by USA Today.

   President Barack Obama’s bill would create a “Lawful Prospective Immigrant” visa for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. The bill includes more security funding and requires business owners to adopt a system for verifying the immigration status of new hires within four years, the newspaper said.

   USA Today reported that the bill would require that immigrants pass a criminal background check, submit biometric information and pay fees to qualify for the new visa. Immigrants who served more than a year in prison for a criminal conviction or were convicted of three or more crimes and were sentenced to a total of 90 days in jail would not be eligible. Crimes committed in other countries that would bar immigrants from legally entering the country would also be ineligible.

   Those immigrants facing deportation would be eligible to apply for the visa, the newspaper reported. Immigrants would be eligible to apply for a green card within eight years, if they learn English and U.S. history and government, and they would later be eligible to become U.S. citizens.

   For more: http://news.yahoo.com/report-bill-set-8-path-residency-033407053–politics.html
4. CR says:

   02/17/2013 at 12:11 pm

   Forward On Climate Rally

   When: February 17, 2013, Noon – 4:00 p.m. (please arrive by 11:30 a.m.)

   Where: The National Mall in Washington, D.C.
   Gather at the northeast corner of the Washington Monument
   (Closest Metro subway stations: Federal Triangle and Smithsonian)

   On Sunday, February 17, thousands of Americans will head to Washington, D.C. to make Forward on Climate the largest climate rally in history. Join this historic event to make your voice heard and help the president start his second term with strong climate action.

   For more: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageServer?pagename=nat_signup_feb17
   • CR says:

     02/17/2013 at 12:11 pm

     Climate Science Day on Capitol Hill 2013

     Following on from the resounding success of Climate Science Day on Capitol Hill 2011 and 2012, NEON, Inc. would like to announce an opportunity for our member institutions and our Federal partners to engage in a training session on communicating with Congress. There is capacity for up to eight individuals (four individuals from member institutions in good standing, and another four individuals from our Federal partners). The event starts with a training session (Tuesday 2013-02-26), followed by a visit to Capitol Hill (Wednesday 2013-02-27) to meet with your legislators and other Members of Congress in multi-disciplinary teams led by representatives from organizing institutions (see “Who” below). NEON, Inc. is looking for individuals to effectively communicate the impacts of large-scale environmental changes on natural resources and the complex interactions between climate and ecosystems. Limited travel assistance for individuals from member institutions in good standing is available. Early career scientists are encouraged to apply.

     http://www.neoninc.org/content/climate-science-day-capitol-hill-2013
5. CR says:

   02/17/2013 at 12:12 pm

   Please join me in lighting a candle for the President, First Family and the Nation.

   http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=PBO
   • Kat 4 Obama says:

     02/17/2013 at 5:29 pm

     31 lit now.
6. CR says:

   02/17/2013 at 12:12 pm

   Sunday talk show tip sheet

   By BREANNA EDWARDS | 2/15/13 4:51 PM EST

   “Meet the Press” on NBC
   • White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough
   • Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
   • Mark Kelly, retired astronaut and husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.)
   • California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D)
   • Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard
   • Alex Castellanos, Republican strategist

   “Face the Nation” on CBS
   • McDonough
   • Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington
   • Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R)
   • Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D)

   “This Week” on ABC
   • McDonough
   • Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), chairman, House Budget Committee
   • Rep. Joaquín Castro (D-Texas)
   • Newt Gingrich, former House speaker and 2012 GOP presidential candidate
   • Stuart Stevens, senior adviser, 2012 Romney campaign
   • Ben Carson, director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins

   “Fox News Sunday” on Fox
   • Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
   • Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
   • Karl Rove, Republican strategist and Fox News contributor
   • Bob Woodward, associate editor, The Washington Post
   • Kimberley Strassel, author and member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board

   “State of the Union” on CNN
   • Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)
   • Sen. John Barrasso (Wyo.), chairman, Republican Policy Committee
   • Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.)
   • Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee

   “Political Capital” on Bloomberg TV
   • Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), ranking member, House Budget Committee

   “Newsmakers” on C-SPAN
   • Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), chairman, House Appropriations Committee

   “Al Punto” on Univision
   • Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragán, president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers
7. vitaminlover says:

   02/17/2013 at 2:32 pm

   I like this list!
   • Kat 4 Obama says:

     02/17/2013 at 5:27 pm

     Me too!
8. CR says:

   02/17/2013 at 9:56 pm

   

   Monday, February 18, 2013

   All Times Eastern

   President Obama receives the presidential daily briefing while on his weekend vacation
   Palm Springs, FL

   Vice President Biden and family are on their weekend vacation in SnowmassCO

   First Lady Michelle and her daughters are on their weekend vacation in Aspen, CO

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   President Obama departs West Palm Beach, Florida

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   President Obama arrives at Andrews Air Force Base after spending the last few days on vacation in Florida.

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   President Obama arrives at the White House

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   • CR says:

     02/17/2013 at 9:57 pm

     

     February 18, 2013

     WhiteHouse.gov http://www.whitehouse.gov/live

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     ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/Live/

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     CSPAN http://www.cspan.org/

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     C-SPAN,White House Historical Association
     First Ladies, Influence and Image Preview http://www.c-span.org/Events/The-First-Ladies-Influence-and-Image/10737438005/
9. CR says:

   02/18/2013 at 11:03 am

   Catching Up With The Curator: Presidential Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt

   Published on Feb 18, 2013

   Go inside the White House with White House Curator, Bill Allman, as he gives insight behind President Theodore Roosevelt’s portrait in the East Room.
   • CR says:

     02/18/2013 at 11:04 am

     I like Pres Roosevelt for establishing the National Parks.
     I also love John Singer Sargent’s paintings!
     • Kat 4 Obama says:

       02/18/2013 at 11:39 am

       Me too. And I like that TR’s portrait hangs in the room where he held judo demonstrations and his kids roller-skated!
       • CR says:

         02/18/2013 at 11:41 am

         
         Hi Kat!
10. CR says:

    02/18/2013 at 11:04 am

    Please join me in lighting a candle for our President, First Family and the Nation.

    http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=PBO
    • Kat 4 Obama says:

      02/18/2013 at 11:41 am

      32 now.
11. CR says:

    02/18/2013 at 11:34 am

    It’s official: The feds will run most Obamacare exchanges

    February 18, 2013 at 10:37 am Posted by Sarah Kliff – washingtonpost

    Friday was a very important day for health policy days. It was the last day for states to tell the federal government whether they wanted any part in running the Affordable Care Act health exchanges come 2014.

    The federal government did not get many takers. Some of the most closely watched states, including Florida and New Jersey, decided to leave the entire task to the federal government. All told, the federal government will run 26 of the state health exchanges. It also will partner with seven states, where state and federal officials take joint responsibility for the marketplace. Seventeen states and the District of Columbia will take on the task themselves. Here’s what that looks like in map form, via the Kaiser Family Foundation

    For more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/18/its-official-the-feds-will-run-most-obamacare-exchanges/
12. CR says:

    02/18/2013 at 3:15 pm

    US Democrat First Ladies

    * Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams

    * Rosalynn Smith Carter

    * Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge

    * Hillary Rodham Clinton

    * Rachel Donelson Jackson

    * Martha Jefferson

    * Eliza McCardle Johnson

    * Claudia Taylor (Lady Bird) Johnson

    * Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy

    * Dolley Todd Madison

    * Elizabeth Kortright Monroe

    * Michelle Obama

    * Jane Means Appleton Pierce

    * Sarah Childress Polk

    * Edith Kermit Cardow Roosevelt

    * Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman

    * Hannah Hoes Van Buren

    * Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
    • CR says:

      02/18/2013 at 4:50 pm

      2:00 PM ET
      C-SPAN,White House Historical Association
      First Ladies, Influence and Image Preview

      CSPAN http://www.c-span.org/Events/The-First-Ladies-Influence-and-Image/10737438005/
      • CR says:

        02/18/2013 at 5:00 pm

        C-SPAN First Ladies Series – Coming in February

        Published on Jan 8, 2013

        Coming in February: C-SPAN’s two-year feature series on the First Ladies, examining their private lives and the roles they played in the White House. Produced in cooperation with the White House Historical Association, each week “First Ladies: Influence and Image” will feature the women who served in the role of First Lady over 44 administrations. This project is the first of its kind — a comprehensive biography series of the First Ladies produced for television.
      • CR says:

        02/18/2013 at 5:01 pm

        C-SPAN First Ladies Series – Michelle Obama – First Ladies she’s drawn to

        Published on Jan 25, 2013

        C-SPAN’s two-season “First Ladies: Influence & Image” feature series begins February 18, 2013. Find more information at http://www.c-span.org/FirstLadies. #FirstLadies

        First Lady Michelle Obama in a 2010 interview with C-SPAN observed: “The First Ladies that I am drawn to are the ones on the ground floor, sort of, the more modern-day First Ladies are the ones I can identify with more. Eleanor Roosevelt, Jackie Kennedy. Those are the women’s whose stories feel close enough to connect with. Many of the women in the higher floors, on the state floor, they seem like characters from a wonderful story because it was such a long time ago. Its history and you read about it in books. To be in their presence seems a little disconnected. The First Ladies on the ground floor are the ones I remember. I remember their real stories, I can picture their lives in an incredible way that makes me think about their challenges and struggles and how they used the space.”
        • CR says:

          02/18/2013 at 5:03 pm

          C-SPAN First Ladies Series – Michelle Obama “Evolutionary Process”

          Published on Jan 17, 2013

          C-SPAN’s two-season “First Ladies: Influence & Image” feature series begins February 18, 2013. Find more information at http://www.c-span.org/FirstLadies. #FirstLadies
        • CR says:

          02/18/2013 at 5:03 pm

          C-SPAN First Ladies Series – Michelle Obama

          Published on Jan 25, 2013

          C-SPAN’s two-season “First Ladies: Influence & Image” feature series begins February 18, 2013. Find more information at http://www.c-span.org/FirstLadies. #FirstLadies
13. CR says:

    02/18/2013 at 4:02 pm

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