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Photograph of Betty Ford, 1974. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Divi

Essay

Betty Ford: A New Kind of First Lady

Americans never elected Gerald R. Ford president or even vice president—Richard Nixon appointed him after Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned in October 1973. Today, Ford’s brief...

Abigail Adams, engraving by John Sartain, n.d. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

Essay

First Ladies’ Contributions to Political Issues and the National Welfare

The US Constitution assigns no duties or responsibilities to the president’s spouse. Every woman had to define for herself the role she wanted to play. From the blank slate that Martha Washington...