First Lady 
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2/2/20
Mary Jo Binker on Eleanor Roosevelt and Advice for Future Historians
by Isabella DelPino
“You know what I love about Eleanor Roosevelt and the thing that I try to emulate the most about Eleanor Roosevelt? She had tremendous zest for life and for new experience and that animates me.”
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2-16-17
Melania Trump May Be a Reluctant First Lady – But so Were Others
by Kathryn Smith
Even Eleanor Roosevelt didn’t want to be first lady.
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SOURCE: AP
6-17-15
American History Has Seen a Few First Lady Stand-Ins
James Buchanan, a Democrat who served one term just before the Civil War, never married. His niece, Harriet Lane, filled the first lady's role.
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