Your favorite First Lady?

[WI_DEM]

I just went back to ER's time but if you have a favorite from before then or not listed please specify.

[truthspeaker]

1. I didn't vote because I don't care who the first lady is

I vote for a president to run the government. I don't care who his or her spouse is or what he or she does. It is completely and totally irrelevant.

[terrya]

2. Eleanor Roosevelt. I like activist First Ladies. Not Stepford Wife types..

like the current one, for instance.

[IrateCitizen]

3. I voted Eleanor Roosevelt -- with Betty Ford a close #2

I don't think people fully realize the contributions that Betty Ford made to our recognizing substance addiction as a medical condition worthy of treatment.

But Eleanor's work early on with the UN was far and away much more than anything any First Lady has done, before or since.

[WI_DEM]

6. so true

[freetobegay]

4. Hillary Clinton, Rosalyn Carter, Lady Bird Johnson,

Jackie Kennedy, Bess Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt, all equally! :)

[IrateCitizen]

7. IOW, it's all about party affiliation in your eyes...

... rather than the contributions they made, through their visibility, to our society at large? I fail to see how the contributions of any of those you listed are beyond the contributions of Eleanor Roosevelt -- or Betty Ford, for that matter.

I don't know how else to interpret your remark, so please correct me (with an explanation) if I'm wrong

[freetobegay]

8. DO not, I repeat do not put words in my mouth

I don't owe an explanation to anyone one for why I picked who i picked.

[ronnykmarshall]

10. Thank YOU!!

[IrateCitizen]

12. You're right. My bad. (nt)

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

5. Eleanor Roosevelt

without a doubt. What a wonderful lady she was and we're all better off today for her dedication.

[Katha]

9. My father met Eleanor Roosevelt in 1955

Got to shake her hand -- he says to this day that she had one of the most beautiful smiles he's ever seen on any woman.

[ronnykmarshall]

11. Jackie! Jackie! Jackie!

[Blasphemer]

13. I voted for Jackie

Since the question was "favorite". I wish we could once again have a First Lady with her grace, style and dignity.

[jobycom]

14. Screw grace, style and dignity

Too artificial for my taste (not Jackie, just those attributes). Give me competence, intelligence, integrity, drive to use their position for something other than an arm prop for their husbands.

Jackie had all those good qualities, too. So did Clinton. So did Ford. My top pick is still Eleanor. What she did was unexpected and unparalleled, which made it more impressive.

Grace, style and dignity look good on a magazine, and there's nothing wrong with that. But I don't judge people's achievements on them.

Just my opinion, not a criticism of yours.

[VolcanoJen]

15. Jackie all the way!!!

She was the most graceful, most beautiful, most dignified First Lady we have ever had. I feel for the horrible position she was put in, and yet she held her head up, and raised two wonderful children.

The cover-story article in Vanity Fair about her is amazing... do check it out!!