First Ladies (91 page)

Plain Speaking
,
216

“Poetry and the American Voice,”
330

Poitiers, Diane de,
23

Polk, James,
11
,
44
,
60
–70

   Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Relations,
62

   death,
68

   marriage,
61

   presidency,
64
,
65
–68

   as Speaker of the House of Representatives,
62

Polk, Sarah Childress,
xiv
,
xx
,
36
,
48
,
59
,
60
–70,
78
,
92

   studies,
61

   as First Lady,
64
,
65
–68

   lament,
336

   married life,
61
–63

   
in Washington,
63

   widowhood,
68
–70

Poll, Gallup,
195

Poore, Ben Perley,
93
,
95

Powell, Adam Clayton,
214

Pravda
,
274

Preserve America,
332

President's Council on Mental Health,
272

President's Daughter, The
(Britten),
164

President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR),
328

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

Prospect
,
349

Proxmire, Ellen

Perilous Life of a Senator's Wife
,
262

Pryor, Sarah Agnes,
36
,
55
,
44
–45

PTA,
87

Public Allies,
350

Quayle, Marilyn,
292

race(ism),
326
–27,
349
–50

Racial equality,
337

Radcliffe, Donnie,
302

Rampersad, Arnold,
327

Random House Dictionary, The
,
361
n
7

Rankin, Jeannette,
136
,
336

“Reach Out and Read” program,
324

Read, Elizabeth,
192

“Ready to Read, Ready to Learn,”
325

“Ready to Read” program,
324

Reagan, Nancy Davis,
xvii
,
4
,
153
,
260
,
277
–84,
309
,
343
,
362
n
13

   “Associate Presidency,”
xviii

   Foster Grandparents program and,
281

   “Just Say No to Drugs,”
310

My Turn
and,
284

Reagan, Ronald,
xix
,
153
,
260
,
273
,
276
,
277
–84,
296

   assassination attempt on,
281

   cancer,
283

Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
177

Redbook
,
230

Red Cross,
150
,
194

Reedy, George E.,
xvi

Regan, Donald

   
For the Record
,
284

Republican National Committee,
165

Reston, James,
221
,
247

Review of Reviews
,
123

Rice, Donna,
304

Riis, Jacob,
122

Rinehart, Mary Roberts,
182

Robards, Lewis,
37
–38

Robb, Charles,
251

Robertson, Pat,
285

Robinson, Marian Shields,
348

Robinson, Michelle LaVaughn,
348

Robinson, Fraser, III,
348

Rockefeller, Nelson,
263
–64

Rodham, Dorothy,
296
,
297
–98

Rodham, Hugh,
297

Rogers, Will,
172

Roosevelt, Alice Lee,
120
,
123

   death,
120

   marriage,
120

Roosevelt, Edith Carow,
120
–26,
133
,
134
,
154
,
155
,
320

   command over Washington social life,
124

   as First Lady,
121
–24

   marriage,
121

Roosevelt, Eleanor,
xiv
–xv,
xvii
,
xix
,
67
,
126
,
157
,
167
,
189
–205,
206
,
207
,
217
,
222
,
223
,
225
,
230
,
232
,
233
,
241
,
242
,
263
,
271
,
274
,
276
,
311
,
316
,
336
,
344

   death,
204

   Democratic Platform Committee and,
193

   as First Lady,
195
–205

   “Flying is Fun,”
200

   Great Depression,
195

   “My Day,”
198

   
women's movement and,
192
–93,
195
–96

   World War I,
192
,
193

   World War II,
200

Roosevelt, Franklin, Jr.,
126

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano,
126
,
189
–205

   assistant secretary of the Navy,
191

   New York governorship,
189

   presidency,
195
–205

Roosevelt, James,
197

Roosevelt, Kermit,
122
,
126

Roosevelt, Sara Delano,
202

Roosevelt, Theodore,
xx
,
119
–26,
131
,
134
,
135
,
147
,
186
,
190
,
316

   marriage to Alice Lee,
120

   marriage to Edith Carrow,
121

   peace settlement between Russia and Japan,
119

   presidency,
130

   vice presidency,
122

Rose, Susan Porter,
290

Rostropovich, Mstislav,
274

Rush, Benjamin,
32

Rusk, Dean,
227

Russo-Japanese War,
273

Rutledge, Ann,
77
–78

Ryan, Kate Halberstadt Bender,
250

Ryan, William,
250

Sadat, Anwar,
273

Safire, William,
314

Salem Female Academy,
61

Sarabi, Habiba,
329

Saturday Evening Post
,
168

Saunders, Frances Wright,
140
,
141

Scheb, Walter, III,
330

Schenk, Lynn,
311

Schlafly, Phyllis,
264
,
266

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.,
xvi

Schroeder, Pat,
297
,
339
–40

Scott, Hazel,
214

Seaton, Josephine,
63

Sellers, Charles,
68

Senate Committee on Armed Services,
347

Senate Education Committee,
330

Senate Ethics Committee,
404
n
69

“Senator John Kennedy and His Bride,”
229

Seneca Falls convention (July 1848),
68

Sheehy, Gail,
313
,
315

Siena Research Institute,
394
n
22

Simkhovitch, Mary Kingsbury,
129
,
192

Simon, Jeanne,
303

60
Minutes
,
304

Smith, Al,
182

Smith, Catherine (Katie),
182

Smith, Helen McCain,
254
,
255

Smith, Margaret Bayard,
34

Smith, Margaret Chase,
338

Smith, Page,
9

Smith, Robert

   as secretary of state,
15

Smith, Ursula,
326

Society of Friends,
13

Sontag, Susan,
53

Sonya Live (CNN),
294

Sorosis,
87

Souvestre, Mademoiselle,
190
,
192

Stalin, Joseph,
208

Stanton, Elizabeth,
68
,
95

   1872 suffrage convention and,
102

Star
,
161
,
304

Stark, Dare,
183

Starr, Kenneth,
314

Stars and Stripes
,
216

State Board of Charities,
88

Stepford Wives, The
(Levin),
253

Stevens, John Paul,
265

Stevenson, Adlai,
159

Stevenson, Letitia,
320

Stone, Lucy,
89

Story, Joseph,
64

Summersby, Kay,
164
,
216
,
217

Sumner, Charles,
66
–67

Sunshine Club,
87

Susskind, David,
238

Symington, Evelyn,
224

“Take Time for Kids,”
324

Taft, Helen Herron,
xiv
,
59
,
120
,
124
,
126
–27,
163
,
243
,
274
,
336

   autobiography,
129

   as First Lady,
131
–35

   illness,
135

   marriage,
128

   Philippines life,
129

   silver wedding anniversary,
133
–34

   widowhood,
135

Taft, Horace,
127

Taft, Julia,
74

Taft, William Howard,
113
,
119
,
127
,
166

   as Chief Justice of Supreme Court,
135

   death,
135

   marriage,
128

   Philippines governorship,
128
–29

   presidency,
131
–35

   as secretary of war,
129
–30

   silver wedding anniversary,
133
–34

Task Force on Health Care Reform,
310
,
311

Taylor, Lloyd C., Jr.,
45

Taylor, Margaret Mackall Smith,
36
,
48
–49

Taylor, Zachary,
48
,
101

Texas Broadcasting Corporation,
238

Thatcher, Denis,
335
,
337

Thatcher, Margaret,
335

Third
,
361
n
7

Thomas, Clarence,
297

Thomas, Helen,
263

Thomas, M. Carey,
86
,
140

Thomas, Norman,
161
,
162
,
169

Thompson, Malvina,
202

Thoreau, Henry David,
42

Tiffany, Louis,
104

Tilden, Samuel,
88

Time
,
198
,
217

Tocqueville, Alexis de,
42

Today
,
315

Todd, Betsy Humphreys,
71

Todd, Robert,
71

Total Woman, The
(Morgan),
279

Travell, Janet,
232

Tripp, Linda,
315

Troy, Gil,
343

Truman, Elizabeth Virginia Wallace (Bess),
xvii
,
205
–15,
217
,
225
,
227
,
230
,
242
,
262

   as First Lady,
211
–23

   marriage,
207

   1944 Democratic Convention and,
213

Truman, Harry,
205
–15,
229
,
362
n
15

   marriage,
207

   1944 Democratic Convention and,
213

   presidency,
211
–23

   vice presidency,
205

Tugwell, Rexford,
197

Twain, Mark,
326

Tyler, John,
46
,
146

   marriage,
47

   presidency,
47
–48

Tyler, Julia Gardiner,
78
,
106
,
108
,
230

   as First Lady,
47
–48

   marriage,
47

Tyler, Letitia,
36
,
48

   death,
47
,
111

   illness,
46
–47

Tyler, Priscilla Cooper,
40
,
47

United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing 1995),
347

Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
204

Up from Slavery
(Washington),
353

USA Today
,
323

U.S. invasion of Iraq (2003),
331

U.S. Peace Commission,
117

U.S. Senate Exploratory Committee,
317

Valenti, Jack,
238

Van Buren, Angelica Singleton,
40
,
42
–43,
95

Van Buren, Hannah

   death,
51

Van Buren, Martin,
36
,
68
,
285