first ladies library, lucinda fraley. [ applause ]. thank you. thank you. and thank you, everyone, who is involved with the symposium. you have absolutely no idea how thrilled my colleagues and i are all to be here. any time we get a chance to present first ladies we always put forth our mission, which is to i can t think of our mission. you can tell i m really good today. it is to educate public about the lives and the activities of the first ladies in this country. and believe me, they were all wonderful. and as i was talking to somebody last night at the reception, we think all the presidents were quite intelligent, every one of them. because they were smart enough to marry the woman who became their life s partner and the first ladies of our country. we want you to be wowed. we want you to be wowed by the first ladies. and as we are every day. so i would like to introduce friends we know very well through the years. as i introduce each one in the order of florence har
and he told her a white house china service for 200 people. that s what she went about doing and i used the line just say no program on drugs. mrs. barbara bush, her promotion of childhood literacy and literacy for adults increased support for the white house committee for preservation of the white house and the redecoration efforts throughouti the executive residence and establishing the white house endowment fund, a $25 million fund so that private funds are available to keep the public rooms of the white house the way you see them when you go and visit.closed and certainly mrs. clinton was a major supporter of that effort and closed out that effort. thor $20 million endowment which is handled c by the white house historical association. and mrs. clinton expanded on that idea and people who wanted to give money for specific acqu purposes, now there is a white house major acquisitions trust.n so that when major paintings or if there s a piece of furniture, people can give mo
i owe the thank you to the presidents that kept me there. i wondered what your typical day was like as far as how many hours a day you worked and if you have children, did they get to interact with any of the family members? yes. my typical day was not very typical.lly i usually got to work at about 6:15 in the morning. to establish the routine for the day, pick up notes that came in overnight. and i never knew what time i was going to go home in the around. it depended on the president and the first lady s schedule, what activities were going on. certainly if there s a world situation that occurs, i have spent three, four, five days there at a time. at th so i really can t say that thera is a typical day. they were all memorable and i can t say they were all enjoyable, but most of them were very enjoyable but very tiring.d the staff was the same way.theyw i knew that i could count on them. they had regular hours. they were there from such and touch time to such and such
first of all, thank you for the most enlightening session.ae i was wondering if there s something you can share with us, the most outrageous or memorable request that was ever made.pres i ve never had an outrageous request by the president of the united states or his wife. at least none that i ll share.ie your remarks, i think, are yu incredible because they humanize the people in the white house that the american people don t see. you plan to write your memoirs or at least this kind of thing and put it in print for people to read? at this time, no. i was able to get and was probably the only person that spoke to both the president and the first lady on a daily basis. and i believe that their privacy is more important than my telling that part of the story.a most of there things that i related here today, either the president or the first lady have mentioned in casual conversations with friends and r know that that information is out there.or and i just believe that i
tuberculosis. no cure. second of all, we left track of how severe and prevalent that illness was in a lot of different parts of the country. lou, in her typical take charge, i got this sort of frame of mind, collects information on all the different potential sanitariums where pete with cca. they have tons of letters from well-meaning people telling them how this can be cured. she eventually settles on the sanitarium in ashville, north carolina. they arrange for pete to go there. they thought about having him at the camp that lou and bert had built in the mountains, but they decided that pete really it was very inaccessible do they decided he needed to be where there was more attentive care and somewhere it was easily accessible. pete s wife and two children moved into the white house for the duration. lou, her typical strong management style, take charge style. her mother was a semi-invalid. she was accustomed to dealing with a parent whose health was up and down. this was