'Lady Bird Johnson' and 'The Triumph of Nancy Reagan': Review
The Atlantic How Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan advanced their husbands’ ambitions—and their own This article was published online on April 20, 2021. Of the many images that lingered after the January inauguration of President Joe Biden—the twinkling hand gestures of the poet Amanda Gorman, the rakish eyebrow-waggling of the second daughter, Ella Emhoff—one of the more subtly significant was the scene of Doug Emhoff trying to figure out which side of his wife, Vice President Kamala Harris, to stand on. As the first and second couples moved to ascend the Capitol steps, Emhoff stood...