The First Ladies - The Wilsons and the Roosevelts

Richard Norton Smith visited the Dole Institute for the third entry of our 2014 Presidential Lecture Series.

Eleanor Roosevelt is credited as inventing the modern position of First Lady as we know it, but Edith Wilson certainly paved the way on her own. Why are these two women considered so instrumental in the shaping of this position?

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