Laura Bush: Teacher, Librarian, and First Lady is about George Bush’s wife, Laura Bush, who worked very hard for the life she is living today. It all started off when she was a young girl; she always put others before herself and treated others they way she wanted to be treated. Laura was very intelligent at a young age; furthermore, she memorized the first and last names of every student in her class as a kindergartner. Later on in her life she was involved in a tragic car accident, which sadly killed her close friend and past boyfriend, Mike Douglas. Years later, she graduated from Southern Methodist University with a bachelor’s degree in education, and University of Texas in Austin with a master of library science degree. In August
Condoleezza Rice’s dedication is evident by her many hours of work per day. Not only does Rice stay with her ridiculous schedule but, she always puts her duties first. Rice tends to only put most of her time towards her job, not her personal life. Once Condoleezza Rice settled in as secretary of state, she began to looking at her job in a whole new perspective. For instance, she works hard to keep her private opinions to herself so she can keep her image as an enigma (First Black Women to Hold Post). Whether Rice is working as a ‘Spokesperson’ or Bush’s ‘Eyes and ears’ she serves solely as intermediary, never as an
This review concludes that despite Donna Dubinsky’s stellar education as a Yale graduate and a Harvard MBA she completely
One important public figure in the 1990s was Hillary Rodham Clinton. Hillary Clinton is a politician. She is most well known for being the First Lady of the United States and Bill Clinton’s wife. While she was the First Lady, she brought attention to the issues of women and children. Over Clinton’s time in the political world, she has won various awards. These awards include the Freedom Medal, Margaret Sanger Award, Arkansas Woman of the Year, Philippine Legion of Honor (Rob Nagel). She wis also in the National Women’s Hall
Throughout our lives we have heard how women throughout history strived to become the best. We have heard stories about women going against society to gain equal rights and we have read about woman with extraordinary character that pursued the history of this world. One of these women is Abigail Adams, the only woman so far to be both wife and mother of a president. Sadly, however, “Abigail Adams” by Janet Whitney is far from being a biography of her life.
Hillary Clinton was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1947 October 26. Hillary attended Eugene Field Elementary School, Ralph Waldo Emerson Middle School, and Wellesley College. At Wellesley College Hillary participated are became a member of the National Honor Society. When she attended Yale Law School in 1969-1973, she became the Senior Class president. Not only that, but she also participated in the Yale Review of Law and Social Action where she graduated with honors. Hillary was a very active member in her years at Yale, her experience of the study in children’s development and medicine was from when she volunteered at the Yale Child Study Center, where she received one post-graduate year. Hillary worked various jobs, one of the many was when she would babysit children of migrant Mexicans who would travel for their work. When she tried applying to NASA they did not accept her because she was a girl and girls were prevented from attending programs that had any involvement with astronauts. The reason why Hillary became so interested in public service was due to the speech in Chicago by Martin Luther King, his speech inspired her to focus of public service and help people. Hillary was very active during her college years, she was involved in many things that involved public service. She worked every summer as a college student, one of her jobs was in a canning factory in Alaska in 1969. Not only did Hillary have to work and attend school the same time, she understands the
Ann Richards was a democratic, born September 1, 1933 in Lacy-Lakeview, Texas. She was an American politician with a very extensive background. In 1976 she became County Commissioner, Treasurer of State in1982 and the second female Governor of Texas in 1990. Richards made national headlines at the Democratic National Convention when she gave the keynote address in 1988. Making jokes about fellow Texan George H.W. Bush saying, "Poor George, he was born with a sliver foot in his mouth."( Richards 2). With her sense of humor and generous heart she broke barriers and empowered women and minorities to be leaders. Richards was a feminist with plans to break a
Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams and was vital for his successes. Before she became his wife she was part of a “picture perfect nuclear family” (Biography), with her father being a minister; she was “early introduced to public service and civic responsibility” (Biography) and was self-educated. Even though John Adams wanted to be too because he didn’t get enough from schooling, he eventually went into law. She was an advocate
Born in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., she attended Wellesley College, then earning a J.D. (Juris Doctor) from Yale Law School in 1973. This hardworking presidential candidate is a woman who’s been fighting for children and families for over forty years. Someone who has provided her best works in reaching over the limits of a woman and providing millions of children with health care. This person is Hillary Clinton, and these are the only some of the biggest accomplishments she has made during her lifetime, there can and will be more if she gets voted as President of the United States of 2016-2020. She has been through many experiences in government, such as being an American lawyer and politician, U.S.
When her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had been unable to walk for eleven years due to infantile paralysis, was elected president in the depths of the Depression in 1932, she wrote in her autobiography that she was happy for him. She believed that being president would “make up for the blow that fate had dealt him” and that he would steer the country through the crisis confronting it.[1] But for herself, she continued, “I was deeply troubled. As I saw it, this meant the end of any personal life of my own. . . . I had watched Mrs Theodore Roosevelt and had seen what it meant to be the wife of a president, and I cannot say that I was pleased at the prospect.”[2] Before Franklin’s election, Eleanor had launched her own career as a writer and teacher. As she put it, “By earning my own money, I had recently enjoyed a certain amount of financial independence and
During the early years of her life she completed studies at Wellesley College (1965-1969), Yale Law School with honors (1969-1973), and finished at the Yale Child Study Center to complete one post-graduation year of study (“Hilary Clinton Biography”, 2016). Her career began as she worked at the Children’s Defense Fund (1973) (Baird, 2016). In the fall of 1974 “she became a faculty member of the University of Arkansas Law School in Fayetteville” (“Hilary Clinton Biography”, 2016). She was later married in 1975 to Bill Clinton, a fellow Yale graduate who would later become the 42nd President of the United States, and has a daughter, Chelsea Victoria Clinton was born in 1980 (“Hilary Clinton Biography”, 2016). As time passed on Hillary became the First Lady of Arkansas (1979-1981, 1983-1992) while she chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee; co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families; and served on the boards of the Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Arkansas Legal Services, and the Children’s Defense Fund (“Hilary Clinton Biography”, 2016). She then served as the US First Lady (1993-2001) where her husband picked her to lead the Task Force on National Health Reform in 1993, but failed to make it to either house and was dropped in 1994 (“Hilary Clinton Biography”, 2016).
Before Ann Richards made a career in politics, she had a career as a mother and wife. Ann was born in Waco, Texas on September 1 of 1933. Waco back then was segregated, had strong religious ideas, and its people where known as being strict conservatives. Ann met her future husband in 1949 when Ann and David where on their senior year in Waco High. Once they graduated high school in 1950, Ann wanted to leave Waco and follow David to Austin where David was studying to become a lawyer at the University of Texas. Ann’s mother, Eleanor, didn’t seem that it was a good idea for her baby girl leave her hometown. Ann was enrolled at Baylor University with a scholarship that payed for her education. They got married in 1953 and four years later, Ann was pregnant with her first daughter, Cecile. David had a job in Austin and Ann stayed in
When one thinks about the tile of First Lady of the United States, images of Jackie Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, and Michelle Obama begin to materialize. In today’s world, the title can be associated with the President’s wife working eloquently towards the good will of the United States either through social services, community service, and even through getting children active within our schools. Additionally, the First Lady of the United States is rarely under the scope of scrutiny. However, in 1828, with the election of President-Elect Andrew Jackson, the First Lady-Elect Rachel Jackson was regarded entirely different. The campaign that allowed for Andrew Jackson against the incumbent, John Quincy Adams, was a very robust campaign that allowed for Jackson to gain control of the executive, but only after he was tainted with sorrow. Because of the fierce campaign ran by John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson charged him for the death of his beloved wife. Therefore, because of the harmful campaign rhetoric against Rachel Jackson deeming her as a bigamist, the extreme sorrow that Jackson has for his wife after her death, and ultimately the apprehension and anxiety that came about as a result of her death, Andrew Jackson has gone down as one of the most notorious presidents in American History.
She was an active participant in her husband’s campaigns. “I made appointments for speaking, recruited speakers, answered newspaper attacks, contracted for the printing and distribution of circulars and sample ballots,” she recalled, “and more than all, kept a brave face to the foe and a smiling face to the almost exhausted candidate.” Her presence on the campaign trail—an unusual place to find a woman then—drew fire from William’s opponents. She would later recall, “I did not stop to think what a change this was for a young woman considered only an ornament and household mistress.” As William’s congressional secretary in “Washington City,” she managed her husband’s correspondence and speeches while writing columns for two local newspapers
Barbara Bush gave a speech unlike any other, a speech to an audience that had gone as far as to protest her even coming to speak to the point where her husband the President of the United States had to stand up for her (Eidenmuller). A speech that combined the use of Aristotle's Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in such a manner that each aspect grew the next. As one aspect developed in her speech it boosted the other up as well, allowing her to come from behind and present the True American Dream - the individual's personal dream. To an audience that despite her individual accomplishments looked down on her because of her Title First Lady.
Before Eleanor Roosevelt, the role of the first lady was not a political role; it was merely just a formal title of the president’s wife. Eleanor Roosevelt paved the way for all presidents’ wives to come by being active in politics during and after her husband’s presidency. Of course, she did not have instant success; she had many trials which helped her become an important and influential role model. Eleanor Roosevelt’s dedication to her husband, her activeness in politics, and her volunteer work enabled her to change the role of the First Lady.