First Ladies (92 page)

   presidency,
42
–43

Vandenberg, Arthur,
204

Vanity Fair
,
88
,
313
,
356

Van Ness, Marcia,
63

Vein of Iron, The
(Glasgow),
267

Victoria, Queen,
103
–4

Villard, Oswald Garrison,
143

Vogue
,
311
,
356

Voting

   gender gap in,
337
–38

Voting Rights Act of 1965,
247
–48,
348

Wallace, David,
209

Wallace, Henry,
213

Wallace, Madge,
210
,
212

Wallace, Walter,
349

Wall Street Journal
,
329

Walton, William,
227

Ward, Barbara,
232
–33

Warren, Mercy,
11
,
22

Washington, Booker T.,
143
,
186

   
Up from Slavery
,
353

Washington, George,
xvii
,
3
–4,
5
–8,
340

   canvassing for advice,
4
–6

   form of address,
3
,
4

Washington, Martha,
xviii
,
3
–4,
5
–8,
12
,
13
,
16
,
154
,
185
,
203
,
205

   form of address,
3

   early years,
26

   as First Lady,
26

   as hostess,
6

   later years,
26

   in New York,
22

Washington Monthly
,
277

Washington Post
,
163
,
213
,
244
,
298

Washington Research Project,
300
–301

WCTU.
See
Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

Webster, Merriam

   
New International Dictionary
,
361
n
7

Weed, Thurlow,
49
,
73

Weidenfeld, Sheila Rabb,
264
–65

Welch, Harold,
321

Welch, Jenna Hawkins,
321

Wells, Charles Stuart,
338

Welty, Eudora,
326

Wesley, John,
88
,
298

West, J. B.,
212
,
218

West, Jessamyn,
253
,
257

Whatever the Wind Delivers
(Bush),
321

White, T. H.,
232

White House Diary
,
241

White House Historical Association,
404
n
68

Wiggins, J. Russell,
244

Willard, Emma,
104

Willard, Frances,
87

Wills, Garry,
303
,
341

Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt,
xiv
,
xvii
,
119
,
145
–55,
260

   as First Lady,
147
–54

   “Gatekeeper Extraordinary,”
154

   marriage to Norman Galt,
146

   marriage to Wilson
147

   “surrogate President,”
154

Wilson, Eleanor,
141
,
150

Wilson, Ellen Axson,
117
,
136
–45,
154
,
161
,
182
,
242

   courtship,
146
–47

   death,
144

   early years,
137
–38

   in Europe,
140

   illness,
144

   marriage,
137

   New York Art Students' League,
138
–39

   segregation of races, support for,
142
–44

Wilson, Margaret,
141
,
150

Wilson, Woodrow,
117
,
136
–45,
191

   
Congressional Government
,
148

   courtship of Ellen Axson,
146
–47

   marriage to Edith,
147

   marriage to Ellen Axson,
137

   peace plan,
151

   presidency,
136
–54

   Versailles Peace Conference (1919),
119

   women's suffrage movement and,
148
–49

Wisehart, M. K.,
193

Wolff, Michael,
356

Woman's Home Companion
,
182

Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU),
87
,
94
–95

Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee,
195
,
196

Women's Home Missionary Society,
95

Women's Liberty Loan Committee,
150

women's suffrage movement,
102
,
148
–49

Women's Trade Union League,
192
,
194

Woodbury, Levi,
65

Woodhull, Victoria,
338

   presidential campaign,
87
–88

Woolf, Virginia,
27

Working Woman
,
294
,
312

World's Work
,
182

World Trade Center, terrorist attack on,
319
,
326

Young, Louise M.,
116