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FIRST LADIES

Who was the only First lady to not be married to the President (don't worry, nothing scandalous, she was his niece). 

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13> Which  First Lady at one time was credited with introducing ice cream to the United States?. 

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Which First Lady did not want to live at the White House and be subject to the publics judgment at all times.       "I would rather be a doorkeeper than live in that palace at Washington."  (She got her wish-- she died of a heart attack 3 weeks before her husband took office)

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13>  Which  First Lady really wanted her husband to be President, and intervened to have President Theodore Roosevelt withdraw an offer to her husband to be appointed to the Supreme Court so that he could later run? 

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13> Which  First Lady said "If I get to the White House, I will neither keep house nor make butter". 

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 Who really enjoyed being  First Lady so much she said " It was quite the happiest period of my life.  I wish it might have continued forever, except that it would have deterred others from enjoying the same privilege".  

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Who really disliked being  First Lady so much she said " It's all very well for those who like it, but I do not like this public life at all".  (hint: her vice President husband took over for Abraham Lincoln in 1865) 

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In yet another bad match for the role she found herself in, this First Lady said "How I wish he was out of political life" 

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Which First Lady said "I do have definite ideas and opinions" and in part due to her influence, there were 3 women appointed to the Cabinet, and 41 federal judgeships.  

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Which  First Lady was the first with a college degree?

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What future First Lady played drums in an all girl band called "The Wildcats"? 

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Which  First Lady and liberated Republican 

This First Lady and liberated Republican had a special phone installed in the White House so that she could personally lobby for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (to give women equal rights as men) and said  "any woman who feels confident in herself and happy in what she is doing is a liberated woman".

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Which  First Lady had her $ 21,000 investment in a small Texas radio station grow into a $ 6 million dollar broadcasting empire. 

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Which First Lady, ranked the second most popular of the 19th century, never granted an interview or wrote her memoirs.  A New York newspaper called the President's marriage to her "altogether the most popular act of his administration". 

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Which  First Lady said "A Lady's name should appear in print only three times: at her birth, marriage, and death". She craved her privacy and also said "One hates to feel that all one's life is public property".

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Which  First Lady felt that the unfair conditions under which people lived in the nearby slums in Washington D.C. were not right, and she got Congress to propose the "Alley Dwelling "bill to upgrade housing for the poor.  The Senate passed the bill before her death the following year. 

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Which  First Lady wrote in 

Although her husband has gone in history as one of the greatest Presidents, this First Lady got off on the wrong foot by buying 16 fancy outfits for the inauguration as the country was about begin the Civil War.  "I want the women to mind their own business.  I intend to wear what I please."  After she left the White House and her husband died, her overspending on clothing and other extravagant items left her $30,000 in debt (a lot of money now, a Huge amount then). 

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In her autobiography "Adventures of a Nobody"  she wrote about her secret feminist feelings.  Her President husband did not view women as equals and he said "something in the very nature of mental abilities which seems to be unbecoming in a female". 

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Which First Lady began dating the President 7 months after he became a widower, and said to him "Much as I enjoy your delicious love letters, I enjoy even more the ones in which you tell me of what you are working on"?  

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Which  First 

This First Lady said "I am more like a state prisoner than anything else as I cannot do as I like and I stay home a great deal".  "I have learned too much of the vanity of human affairs to expect felicity from  public life".  

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was the First Lady elected  

Who is referred to as "the best housekeeper the White House has ever known" by having electricity installed, renovating the kitchen and heating system, and collecting presidential china from all over. 

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Which future First Lady got her nickname Tipper from the lullaby "Tippy Tippy Tin"?

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Which First 

This First Lady  caught malaria 2 months after her husband became President, and she never returned to the White House?

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Which  First Lady 

This  First Lady  had 4 sons and died of tuberculosis in 1819 eighteen years before her Husband became President.  He never remarried. 

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She was the first woman to graduate from Stanford University with a degree in geology, was a passionate advocate of outdoor activities for women, and she said  "It isn't so important what others think of you as what you feel inside"

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Which First Lady was the 

Which First Lady began dating  the President 4 months after he became a widower.  She was in no rush to get married until she and the President witnessed her father's death while he was on a boat on the Potomac River, and afterwards she said "I feel differently toward the President".  She said of the President "he is more agreeable in every way than any young man ever was or ever could be".

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Which  First 

This First Lady helped her husband get elected by getting the women's vote, and said upon winning the election   "I have got you the presidency; what are you going to do with it?" and "I know what's best for the President.  He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not". 

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Which  First Lady  is often considered the most admired first lady in history.  She was the first to hold her own press conferences, write a syndicated column, and hold her own official governmental position.  When her husband was first elected, she said "Now I'll have no identity"  She of course did have her own strong  identity.. 

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This  First Lady  was unable to attend her husbands inauguration due to the death of their son.  A month later she got more bad news ---her husband also died. 

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Who was quite She was very unhappy to be  First Lady and felt that her husband's Presidency was "a plot to deprive her of his society and to shorten his life by unnecessary care and responsibility".  She turned out to be partially right -- her husband died shortly after a year in office. 

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Which  First Lady said "My life began when I got married".

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Who said "You really only have two choices; you can like what you do OR you can dislike it.  I choose to like it, and what fun I've had". Girls just want t have fun!

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Which First Lady 

Which future First Lady  chaired the first ever White House Conference on Mental Health that addressed stigma, discrimination and parity in mental health care.?

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Which First Lady Which First Lady died after having a stroke in the White House shortly after her husband became President?  

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Which  Which First Lady was the first to be elected to public office?

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Which First Lady  got her Masters Degree in Library Science, was a teacher and a librarian, and has twin girls?. 

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Who was the youngest  First 

This First Lady died in 1885 before her husband was inaugurated as President.

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 Which  First Lady's health was weakened due to seven pregnancies in ten years, and died at the age of 33. 

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Which  First Lady was a former teacher for children with hearing impairments?