First Ladies (90 page)

Lafayette, Marquis de,
26
,
28

Lamberth, Royce C.,
310

Lane, Harriet,
40
,
43
–45,
56

language,
41

Lape, Esther,
192

Lash, Joseph,
190
,
197
,
205
,
222

Lathrop, Julia,
135

Latrobe, Benjamin,
14

Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries,
326

Laxalt, Paul,
284

Lazio, Rick,
318

League of Nations,
153
,
154

League of Women Voters,
192

Lear, Tobias,
7

Lee, Robert E.,
81

Legal Services Corporation,
305

Lehman, Herbert,
222

Leslie's Magazine
,
73

Lewinsky, Monica,
315

Lewis, David Levering,
326

Lewis, John L.,
200

Life
,
300

“Life Saving Station,”
95

Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act,
354

Limerick, Patricia Nelson,
327

Lincoln, Abraham,
xx
,
70
–76,
101

   assassination,
56
,
76

   marriage,
72

   presidency,
72
–76

Lincoln, Mary Todd,
xiv
,
xvi
,
36
,
56
,
59
,
60
,
70
–80,
111

   courtship,
78

   in Europe,
76

   family,
71

   as First Lady,
76

   marriage,
72

   mental problems,
78
–79

   stories of treachery,
73
,
74
–75

   widowhood,
76
–77

Lincoln, Robert,
76
,
78
,
79

Lincoln, Thomas (Tad),
76
,
77

Lindbergh, Charles,
200

Liston, Henrietta,
9

Literary Club,
94

Livermore, Mary,
87

Lockwood, Belva,
338

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt,
134
,
162
,
165
,
186
,
187
,
192

Longworth, Nicholas,
123

Look
,
217

Louchheim, Katie,
230

Lowell, Josephine Shaw,
88

Luce, Clare Booth,
214

Lyons, Leonard,
214

Madison, Dolley Payne Todd,
xix
–xx,
12
,
13
–17,
18
,
22
,
26
,
27
–28,
43
,
44
,
45

   as First Lady,
17

   hostess to Thomas Jefferson,
12
,
13

   marriage to James Madison,
13

Madison, James,
xix
–xx,
14
,
14

   marriage,
13

   as secretary of state,
12

   war on Great Britain (1812),
15

Mangione, Jerre,
197

Manning, Helen Taft,
135
–36

Marcos, Ferdinand,
284

Marion Star
,
160

Marshall, George C.,
200
,
216

Marshall, Thomas R.,
xvii

Mawr, Bryn,
86

McAdoo, Eleanor Wilson,
150

McBride, Anita,
330

McCaffree, Mary Jane,
220
,
223

McCain, Cindy,
337
,
346

McCain, John,
340
,
341

   presidential campaign,
344
,
345
–46

McCall's
,
215

McCarthy, Abigail,
xvi
,
234
,
262
,
267

McCarthy, Eugene,
248
,
262
,
299

McClure's
,
122

McCormack, Ellen,
339

McElroy, Mary,
104

McKell, Phebe,
96

McKinley, Ida Saxton,
58
,
111
–15,
117
,
320

   early years,
112

   as First Lady,
113
–14,
115

   illness,
112

   marriage,
112
–13

   widowhood,
114

McKinley, William,
112
–14,
128

   assassination,
114

   governorship,
113

   marriage,
112
–13

   presidency,
113
–14

   Spanish-American War and,
114

McLean, Edward,
165

McLean, Evalyn Walsh,
162
–63,
167
,
168

Mead, Margaret,
xvi
–xvii,
230

Means, Marianne,
208

Memoirs
,
117
,
252

Mental Health Systems Act,
272

Mercer, Lucy,
192

Mexican-American War,
48

Miller, Merle,
216

Millie's Book as Dictated to Barbara Bush
,
290
–91

Mills, Elijah,
365
n
83

Mobile Alabama Press
,
186

Mondale, Walter,
283
,
296

Money
,
307

Monroe, Elizabeth Kortright,
17
–20,
22
,
35
,
36
,
181
,
215

   as First Lady,
18
–19,
28
–29

   illness,
45

Monroe, James,
xiv
,
17
,
27
,
228

   criticism on mishandling furniture purchases,
19

   in France,
19
,
28

   as minister to France,
28

   presidency,
18
–19,
28
–29

   as secretary of state,
18

Monroe, Maria,
18

Monroe, Marilyn,
219

Montgomery, John R.,
42

Moore, Mary Tyler,
267

Morgan, Marabel

   
The Total Woman
,
279

Mott, Lucretia,
68

Moynihan, Patrick,
317

Mr. Madison's War,
15

“Mr. President,”
4

Mrs. President, the term,
xv
.
See also
First Lady(ies)

MS Foundation for Women,
306

Mt. Vernon Banner
,
69

Mundy, Liza,
349

Murray, Judith Sargent,
25

Murray, Patty,
297

Murrow, Edward R.,
225

   “Person-to-Person” program,
229

My Turn
,
284

Nation
,
114

National Amateur Athletic Association,
181

National Association of Colored Women's Clubs,
87

National Book Festival,
325
–26

National Broadcasting Company,
185
,
383
n
146

National Collection of Fine Arts,
44

National Council of Jewish Women,
87

National Equal Rights Party,
338

National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs,
222
–23

National Gallery,
227

National Institute of Health,
208

National Library,
115

National Organization of Women (NOW),
313

National Park Service,
239

National Review
,
352

National Union
,
91

National Woman's Party,
201

National Youth Administration,
198
,
200

New Deal,
xv
,
196
,
201

New International Dictionary
,
361
n
7

Newsweek
,
224
,
311

new woman,
xx
,
88

New World Foundation,
305
–6

New York Art Students' League,
138

New Yorker, The
,
171
,
227
,
308
,
312
–13

New York Herald
,
91

New York Post
,
326

New York Press Club,
87

New York Review of Books
,
303

(New York) State Factory Investigating Commission,
201

New York Telegram
,
166

New York Times
,
49
,
105
,
144
,
150
,
186
,
196
,
211
,
213
,
216
,
229
,
234
,
266
,
273
,
275
,
283
,
309
,
311
,
313
,
314
,
326
,
328
,
329
,
332
,
343
,
356

New York True Sun
,
47

Nitze, Paul,
300

Nixon, Julie,
255
–56

Nixon, Richard,
xviii
,
223
,
248
,
262
,
312

   presidency,
252
–57

   resignation,
302

   retirement,
257

   vice presidency,
252

   Watergate,
256

Nixon, Thelma Ryan (Pat),
224
–25,
248
,
260
,
264
,
289
,
328

   early life,
249
–50

   
as First Lady,
252
–57

   Right to Read program,
249

Nixon, Tricia,
229

Norton, Mary Beth,
25
,
363
n
16

Notable American Women
,
112

NOW.
See
National Organization of Women (NOW)

Nussbaum, Bernard,
312

Obama, Barack Hussein,
340
,
342

   
Dreams from My Father
,
351

   Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and,
354

   presidency,
347
,
352
–57

   presidential campaign,
344

Obama, Michelle Robinson,
333
,
337

   directorship of Public Allies,
350

   early life,
348
–50

   as First Lady,
347
,
352
–57

O'Brien, Patricia,
312

O'Connor, Sandra Day,
296

Odum, Reathel,
211

O'Hagan, Ann,
157

Olivia.
See
Briggs, Emily

Onassis, Aristotle,
231

Organization of American Historians,
363
n
23

Owen, Ruth Bryan,
201

Palin, Sarah,
345

   campaign,
344
–45

   vice presidential nomination,
335

Palmer, Mitchell,
153

Pandora,
93
–94

Parnis, Mollie,
219

Patterson, Bradley H.,
342

Patterson, Martha Johnson,
40
,
57

Paul, Alice,
148
,
149

Peace Corps,
298

Peck, Mary Hulbert,
141

Pelosi, Nancy,
335

Pendergast, James,
210

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,
142

People
,
308
,
334

“People, Parties and Protocol,”
275

pep Committee,
250
,
252

PEPFAR.
See
President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

Perez, Anna,
290

perfect wife,
215

Perilous Life of a Senator's Wife
(Proxmire),
262

Perkins, Frances,
182
,
196
,
201
,
206

   as secretary of labor,
196

Perot, Ross,
292

Peterson, Esther,
233

Peterson's Magazine
,
69

Philadelphia's Academy of Fine Arts,
141

Philadelphia Times
,
92

Pictorial Review
,
171

Pierce, Bennie,
53
,
55

Pierce, Franklin,
53
–55,
64

   presidency,
53
,
54
–55

Pierce, Jane,
36
,
48
,
53
–55

   as First Lady,
53
,
54
–55

   illness,
54

   married life,
54

Pierce, Marvin,
285

Pierce, Pauline Robinson,
285

Pierpoint, Robert C.,
250
–51,
252

Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth,
11