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, 404n69
“Senator John Kennedy and His Bride,” 229
Seneca Falls convention (July 1848), 68
Sheehy, Gail, 313, 315
Siena Research Institute, 394n22
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, 361n7
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, 362n15
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
presidency, 42–43
Vandenberg, Arthur, 204
Vanity Fair, 88, 313, 356
Van Ness, Marcia, 63
Vein of Iron, The (Glasgow), 267
Victoria, Queen, 103–4
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 143
Vogue, 311, 356
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br /> Voting
gender gap in, 337–38
Voting Rights Act of 1965, 247–48, 348
Wallace, David, 209
Wallace, Henry, 213
Wallace, Madge, 210, 212
Wallace, Walter, 349
Wall Street Journal, 329
Walton, William, 227
Ward, Barbara, 232–33
Warren, Mercy, 11, 22
Washington, Booker T., 143, 186
Up from Slavery, 353
Washington, George, xvii, 3–4, 5–8, 340
canvassing for advice, 4–6
form of address, 3, 4
Washington, Martha, xviii, 3–4, 5–8, 12, 13, 16, 154, 185, 203, 205
form of address, 3
early years, 26
as First Lady, 26
as hostess, 6
later years, 26
in New York, 22
Washington Monthly, 277
Washington Post, 163, 213, 244, 298
Washington Research Project, 300–301
WCTU. See Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Webster, Merriam
New International Dictionary, 361n7
Weed, Thurlow, 49, 73
Weidenfeld, Sheila Rabb, 264–65
Welch, Harold, 321
Welch, Jenna Hawkins, 321
Wells, Charles Stuart, 338
Welty, Eudora, 326
Wesley, John, 88, 298
West, J. B., 212, 218
West, Jessamyn, 253, 257
Whatever the Wind Delivers (Bush), 321
White, T. H., 232
White House Diary, 241
White House Historical Association, 404n68
Wiggins, J. Russell, 244
Willard, Emma, 104
Willard, Frances, 87
Wills, Garry, 303, 341
Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt, xiv, xvii, 119, 145–55, 260
as First Lady, 147–54
“Gatekeeper Extraordinary,” 154
marriage to Norman Galt, 146
marriage to Wilson 147
“surrogate President,” 154
Wilson, Eleanor, 141, 150
Wilson, Ellen Axson, 117, 136–45, 154, 161, 182, 242
courtship, 146–47
death, 144
early years, 137–38
in Europe, 140
illness, 144
marriage, 137
New York Art Students’ League, 138–39
segregation of races, support for, 142–44
Wilson, Margaret, 141, 150
Wilson, Woodrow, 117, 136–45, 191
Congressional Government, 148
courtship of Ellen Axson, 146–47
marriage to Edith, 147
marriage to Ellen Axson, 137
peace plan, 151
presidency, 136–54
Versailles Peace Conference (1919), 119
women’s suffrage movement and, 148–49
Wisehart, M. K., 193
Wolff, Michael, 356
Woman’s Home Companion, 182
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), 87, 94–95
Women’s Division of the Democratic National Committee, 195, 196
Women’s Home Missionary Society, 95
Women’s Liberty Loan Committee, 150
women’s suffrage movement, 102, 148–49
Women’s Trade Union League, 192, 194
Woodbury, Levi, 65
Woodhull, Victoria, 338
presidential campaign, 87–88
Woolf, Virginia, 27
Working Woman, 294, 312
World’s Work, 182
World Trade Center, terrorist attack on, 319, 326
Young, Louise M., 116
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