First Ladies of the USA 4/6: World War Wives (1893-1945) 

I nearly choked on my soup. 🤣

Hubby was at the “Gentleman’s Ballet”🤣😂🤣

The accuracy

She said that so smooth.

UGH! She was being kind to old Warren. The "little house on K street" was famous at the time because its where Harding and his friends went to meet women and drink. It was the 'best known secret' in Washington at the time.

She would have. I've thought that about other First Ladies too. Like Abigail Adams.

I admire Eleanor the most out of the First Ladies and Abraham Lincoln out of the presidents. I have found myself reading biographies and autobiographies of both of them lol

Couldn't agree more. The show "First Ladies" was really great at showing this.

@@reniasva Yes I love that show!

Agree 💯 !!!!

And also Eleanor Roosevelt was very influential in getting a black squadron which was called the Tuskegee Ammon she even flew in a plane with one just to prove that blacks were intelligent enough and are intelligent enough to fly airplanes!!

In my experience, LGBTQ people on average tend to be more radically progressive and empathetic about the suffering of other groups of underprivileged people than cis-straight people, becuz they know what it feels like to be oppressed and discriminated against. Elenor is one of such examples.

I have been trying to find something on the relationship between those two (TR and Eleanor). Do you have any recommendations? I have read a ton of books on TR and Eleanor, sometimes for the sole purpose of finding the depth of their relationship. But mostly to avail.

Great man.

Great husband, controversial president is my view on him. His legacy is rather complex with the Spanish-American War and other matters.

Kind of adorable if you ask me.

@@A-Gordon-Brown-Stan-Account Kind and adorable if you ask me!! I am a baby boomer who has admired McKinley on-and-off and now on for good. An attractive and personable person, he was very religious and showed exemplary devotion to his wife.

Well, she was accepting of just about anyone it seems. I mean, look at all those old lesbos she was always running around with! LOL

That’s quite a story!

i was just thinking this! what a badass this woman was!

They were being kind to her here. She was a social grabbing upwardly mobile person who was unstable. She pushed Harding into the presidency. He was happy and wanted to stay in the Senate. Read Lillian Rogers Parks book "Backstairs at the White House." She and her mother were maids there and her mother tended Florence Harding through her illnesses and 'episodes.' Here is an interesting fact. When Warren died, she refused to leave the White House and Calvin Coolidge had to live at the Willard Hotel until she decided to vacate.

@@retroguy9494 Yeah, I wasn't indicating she was what we'd call a "great person", just a very interesting one I'd love to see portrayed in media.

@@LittleMissLounge It sure would be interesting if they portrayed her accurately!

True. I have to wonder what Mrs. Edith Wilson and Mrs. Roosevelt (both of them) would have been capable of as Lady Presidents.

@@ChibiProwl I often wish Eleanor Roosevelt got the chance to be Mrs. President, she might have done a lot as First Lady, but she might have done a lot more as president

@@twilight-princess240 True.😎

Mrs Wilson was unofficial president when he had brain bleeds/ strokes for at least a month.

I knew Eleanor Roosevelt did some things but didn't know how much she did. And I never heard that her husband had a mistress.

She sounds so awesome! It’s wonderful to hear about her sticking about for minorities and encouraging other women to work if they wished to.

Definitely. She was an amazing woman and First Lady, the definition of the role of First Lady today is largely thanks to her

@@karenkratzer7036 When she found out her husband had a mistress, she resolved to seek fulfillment in having her own public life. I hope she found the fulfillment she was looking for in all that she did before, during, and after her tenure as First Lady.

@@karenkratzer7036 A mistress? LOL He had SEVERAL over the years! FDR was a real ladies man. And don't think that polio slowed him down either! Even his own cousin, who he was ALSO doing, wrote in her diary which was discovered after her death that FDR was 'very much still a man' when it came to...well, you know! LOL

That would be interesting. It wasn't only "women losing children" Before the creation/ invention of "miracle drugs" (used by the military during the closing days of WW2, and afterwards by the public) *death rates were high* Often an infection from a wound or as a secondary infection (usually pneumonia) from an illness resulted in death. *Maternal and infant* *death rates were very high.* Only one out of every four people born made it to adulthood prior to modern sanitary water and sewers in cities (mid- late 1800's) the death rate in cities was enormous. Before the advances in agriculture post- WW2, famine was common not only in Africa but also in Europe and even in the USA (Although the US had much more farmland than many other countries and relatively good transportation -- rivers that were interconnected)

Early Washington DC was built on a swamp, and sewage was dumped in directly. It theorized that's why Lincolns son died of typhoid, and Harrison died of gi fever not actually pneumonia.

@@MarianneKat i could believe that. Even still, as the videos progress the presidential children seem to live tragic and short lives.

Oh, I can answer THAT one for you! Its 36 out of 46. Washington, Madison, Jackson, Polk and Buchanan (who was gay) never had any children. In fact, the main reason Washington was chosen as the first president was due to the lack of children. The founders were fearful of a political dynasty much like a monarchy where the presidents kids would take over. With the rest, their direct genealogical lines have simply died out. Some of them died out really rather recently. For instance Lincoln's descendants died out in 1985 with the death of his great grandson who never had any children. The others are Pierce who had sons but none survived to adulthood. In fact, one of them actually got decapitated when he fell between railroad cars right in front of his parents on the way to Pierce's inauguration. Fillmore had 2 children, a boy and a girl but neither of them married or had children. Arthur's line died out in when his grandson died in 1972. And finally McKinley had 2 daughters but as we learned here, neither lived to adulthood.

@@retroguy9494 Its 35 out of 45 actually because Cleveland is counted twice. He had two non consecutive terms so he is counted twice even though it is the same guy, so technically its 35 different families because his is counted twice.

That would probably a lot longer than this six part series.

@@karenkratzer7036 I don’t mind.

Well, I DO know THIS much. In modern times, very few presidents since Teddy Roosevelt have NOT had mistresses. The jury is still out on Obama as nothing has surfaced yet, but the rest of them did except for Truman and Reagan. Well, there were some rumors about Coolidge but nothing concrete has surfaced there either. Hell, even WASHINGTON had a little on the side!

Yeah, and her father must've lost the power of speech when the guy he threatened became president. Good. Though he must've been manically laughing when it was discovered her husband was a cheater. Dang it.

She wasn't. She was a sickly, unstable woman who was upwardly mobile and forced her husband into something he did not want. You need to read up on her.

@@essencetune7341 her father died before Warren became president.

@@retroguy9494 Florence was not a friendly woman. While she ran the Marion, Ohio newspaper business, she inflicted physical abuse on some paper carrying kids because they did not follow her strict rules to her liking.

@@PreziesLover327 Yep. Like I said in my comment, she was an unstable woman. Kind of ironic when you consider she only ran that paper for a short time while Harding himself was in a sanitarium for depression!

America is a depressing place now. But it seems a lot of the children have died of Tuberculosis.

You have seizures too? 😜

Fun fact- Abraham Lincoln had a pair of handmade goat themed slippers

It's interesting to hear about other leaders and their families, as an American😊

Literally tho… i think most of the first ladies would make better presidents than their spouses

@@disaintyopot I look forward, with great hope, that one day free people will choose leaders who can lead...making choices to eliminate all works to eliminate. Our world is filled with greatness that is unexpressed simple because...I hope that from history we can learn and allow greatness to be, regardless of packaging.

How did you comment that 8 days ago? It was released 5 mins ago

@@clarah.9681 I have a subscription to her patreon and got early access. It’s literally $1

@@brettlarch8050 but it’s the same day and it says 9 now so I’m still confused

@@clarah.9681 Go to her patreon.

@@clarah.9681 You’re not very bright, are you?

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Funny that! My parents signed me up for the 'Brownies' when I was seven, in 1973.To mother's dismay; it didn't end well. I was what could only be described as a tomboy and hated the tedious meetings. I wanted to DO THINGS. Thankfully, my father had my back.

@@wonderwoman2435 You want to hear a GOOD one? I come from a very small town. Around the same time that you joined the brownies, a young woman, her husband and toddler moved to town. She became the brownie leader. To this very day, almost 50 years later, she's STILL the leader! LOL The funny thing is, no one liked her or could stand her. My parents generation, mostly dead now, couldn't stand her. Neither could mine. NOW, the newer millennial parents don't like her. But yet, she survived all these years!

No you have it backwards. Although if you hear Franklin pronounce his last name on newsreels and speeches, he always said 'Rose-uh-vult.' So he didn't even pronounce the 'velt' like both branches did.

The Coolidges were one of them.

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She wouldn't dump him because she was upwardly mobile and wanted to be in the White House. And she KNEW she could bully him into it. He didn't WANT to be president. She pushed. He was happy in the Senate. Harding had NUMEROUS women. There was a tunnel that used to be used to sneak his women into the White House. Rumor has it that same tunnel was used for JFK's women as well!

A Barbie doll version of Eleanor?? She was still living when the first Barbie dolls came out in 1959, and died a few years later. I wonder what she thought of them, probably got them for her granddaughters.

Ended up in menopause after that.

It was to hide her facial contortions.

I would love to see a play or musical based on Alice's life, as she met every president between Benjamin Harrison and Gerald Ford. She was banned from the White House during the Taft and Wilson presidencies for disrespect, as well as certain times during FDR's tenure.

@@wannerandrewlawrence4167 That would be awesome

Especially his first born Alice who lived until 1980.

@@MyDarkmarc UGH Alice was a real bitch! Right from the start. She even bullied her only child, who ended up killing herself with sleeping pills at the age of 31.

True

@@Richardsonprincess00 But just barely in his 4th term which was only a few months.

I hope she notices!

I hear that and if we had a good candidate I believe we would have a female president.

@@karenkratzer7036 As you deserve! I hope there will be one soon. Just avoid Trump in 2024 and we'll see how far you get🙏

Well, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson was unofficially and she was quite capable. She started running Galt Jewelers after her first husband passed away, and the business still is in operation in DC to this day.

Well, Britain got Margaret Thatcher, so...there is no guarantee that a female US president would be a feminist. Heck, at least three of America's most prominent female officials historically were actually war hawks, so there's something else to think about.

@@thunderbird1921 While that is absolutely true (try to picture Magda Taylor Goebbels Greene or Lauren Boebert as prez), I think a female leader would be treated differently by the media and in general. But again: you're right that the gender alone isn't an indicator for the ideology.

Its true she had more money than FDR. Her branch of the family was wealthier. You also have to remember that FDR's mother controlled all his money, even when he was president! He did not get his inheritance/trust fund until his mother's death in 1941, just 3 and a half years before his OWN death!

Yes..only their youngest daughter was born a Yankee she returned to Georgia for the births of the the others, even though they were living up north in Pennsylvania.

Because she was First Lady MUCH LONGER time than the others.

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Yes, he died about three months into his fourth term.

Only TWO New Deal programs were ruled unconstitutional. The National Recovery Act and the Agricultural Adjustment Act. The latter was rewritten, however, and upheld. But you're right about WWII getting us out of the depression. When we switched from a domestic to a wartime producing economy. And we STAYED that way until Clinton put us back on the domestic one in the 1990's!

Yessss!!! I'd love to see that!

Oh no you DON'T. You need to read up on them!

@@retroguy9494 wait uh oh were they actually bad

@@bvaldez7604 I wouldn't exactly use the word "bad." But they had a LOT of faults. For instance, Lou Hoover looked down upon servants. When they were in the White House, she would only talk to them when she absolutely had to, and preferred to communicate with them using a series of hand motions. Also, she didn't like them to speak to her. If she got up and started to walk around the room, it meant she had enough of the servant being in her presence and they were to immediately leave. In addition, during the depression, while people were starving and homeless, she threw lavish luncheons just about daily. As for HIM, well, he was way too out of touch with the people as president. His last year as president, while people were standing on breadlines, he bought himself a brand new 1932 Cadillac Fleetwood Imperial V16 limousine. One of the most expensive cars a the time, it cost around $110,000 in todays money. While he DID do a lot to feed hungry children in Europe after the war, he did very little in that regard here in America during the depression. He preferred that private charities take care of people rather than institute government programs that put them to work earning money like FDR did. In fact, during one meeting with his treasury secretary when he was debating what to do, the secretary told him that 'there will always be those who survive and those who don't; its been that way since the beginning of time.' Of course Secretary Mellon was a multi millionaire banker. This is jus the tip of the iceberg with the Hoovers.

I agree whole heartedly!!! He's handsome in every stage of his life.

He felt obligated after the death of Eleanor's father who was Teddy's brother. He WAS very good to her. He recognized that her grandmother Hall with whom she lived was basically an old nut case and he wanted to help her. I don't know if he knew about the attempted sexual abuse by Eleanor's drunken uncle's who also lived with them.

We're not entirely sure if it was actually Guillain-Barre syndrome, but many of his symptoms do fit GBS, so it could be that or something else. I don't think we'll know for sure what he actually had.

He was NOT 'diagnosed.' Its just a theory based on modern understanding of BOTH diseases. Twilight is correct. We will NEVER know at this point for certain what it was as the man is long gone and I don't even think if they dug him up at this point they would be able to tell!

@@retroguy9494 yeah, his body has long decomposed by now and I don't think bones will be of much help in figuring out what illness he had

@@twilight-princess240 Well, sometimes they can be, but not in the case of these two diseases. At least I don't THINK so. I've actually been to FDR's home, library and grave site in Hyde Park. He's one of my heroes. He was a truly remarkable man for what he was able to accomplish given his disability. Which was far worse than anyone imagined up until perhaps 20 years ago.