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First Families of Prohibition
Five Presidential Couples lived in the White House between 1920 and 1933: The Prohibition Years. A Long Simmering Issue Of course nobody is in favor of drunkenness! And a traditionally Puritan ethic made public intoxication a cause for shame and … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Warren G. Harding, Woodrow Wilson
Tagged American history, Edith Galt Wilson, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Lady Edith Wilson, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady Florence Harding, First Lady Grace Coolidge, First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, history, President Calvin Coolidge, President Franklin D Roosevelt, President Herbert Hoover, President Warren G. Harding, President Warren Harding, President Woodrow Wilson, Presidential history, Prohibition, The 18th Amendment, US history, White House history
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The Six FLOTUS Widows of 1947
In January, 1947, five (and maybe a “half”) widowed First Ladies were still living. Frances Folsom Cleveland (1864-1947) Frances Cleveland was a First Lady of many distinctions. She was First Lady two separate times, during the non-consecutive terms of Grover … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Benjamin Harrison, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson
Tagged American history, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, Edith Carow Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady Edith Roosevelt, First Lady Edith Wilson, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady Frances Cleveland, First Lady Grace Coolidge, Frances Folsom Cleveland, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, history, Mary Dimmick Harrison, President Benjamin Harrison, President Calvin Coolidge, President Franklin D Roosevelt, President Grover Cleveland, President Theodore Roosevelt, President Woodrow Wilson, Presidential widows, Presidential Wife Mary Harrison, Presidential wives, US history, White House history
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Herbert Hoover, Food Administrator
When World War I finally came to US shores, President Wilson summoned Herbert Hoover back home. The Hoovers: Ex-Pats For nearly twenty years, Mr. And Mrs. Herbert Hoover had lived abroad, in various and exotic locations. They didn’t even have … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Herbert Hoover
Tagged American history, Edith Wilson, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Lady Edith Wilson, First World War, Food Administration publicity campaign, Herbert Hoover, history, Lou Henry Hoover, President Woodrow Wilson, saving food during WWI, The Food Administration, The Second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, The World's Bread Basket, US history, Woodrow Wilson, World War I history
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The Stewardship of the Second Mrs. Wilson
“Steward” was the word that Edith Bolling Wilson used to describe herself during the last 18-months of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, when he suffered a crippling stroke. Edith Bolling Wilson: A Conspiracy Theory? Modern historians, freed by the distance of a … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Woodrow Wilson
Tagged "the first woman president", American First Ladies, American history, Dr. Cary Grayson, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, Edith Bolling Wilson, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady Edith Wilson, First World War, history, Joseph Tumulty, League of Nations, President Woodrow Wilson, Presidential history, Thomas R. Marshall, US history, Vice President Thomas Marshall, White House history, Wilson physician Cary Grayson, Wilson secretary Joseph Tumulty, Wilson VP Marshall, Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson's stroke, World War I
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