first lady

A recent Boston Globe piece from Mark Peters takes a look at the title “first lady,” calling it an “archaic term.”We don’t use the term “lady” very often…

Patricia Hill Burnett, who was famous back in the 1970s as sort of the quintessential Republican feminist, will be 94 in a few months.She is still…

Two former First Ladies will take part in a special event in Grand Rapids Monday.Former First Ladies Barbara and Laura Bush are headlining the day-long…

Cameras shuttered but the crowds remained silent as uniformed officers’ took Betty Ford’s casket into Grace Episcopal Church Thursday afternoon. John…

Betty Ford and her husband, the late President Gerald Ford, spent much of the past thirty years in Rancho Mirage, California. About a thousand people will…

Betty Ford said things that first ladies just don't say, even today. And 1970s America loved her for it.According to Mrs. Ford, her young adult children…