Cokie Roberts wrote a book about the early first ladies and their enormous impact on American political history. She jokes about how they all would have done a better job as president than their husbands did. Her favorite is Dolly Madison. Candidates running against James Madison claimed that they would have been able to beat him had he not been married to Dolly. During the fire while she was first lady, she saved the portrait of George Washington.
Jon Stewart tried to bring up the issue of how far a first lady's power can go. Even today, there are certain things first ladies can do and certain things that our looked at. He used Hillary Clinton as an example of people thinking she was too active. Roberts responded that she didn't think it was true and the reason she wrote the book was to show the power and contributions of first ladies.
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