Mary's Reputation

[Liz Rosenthal]

(02-27-2013 10:48 AM)Tom Emery Wrote:  I'm with Herb on that one, and I find her reply to be very interesting - and very telling.

There have been few First Ladies who evoked the controversy, albeit in different ways, of Mary Todd Lincoln and Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton? I think I'd go with Eleanor Roosevelt. While she was First Lady, she was hated (or loved, depending on one's perspective) for going against the grain in almost every way imaginable. Her actions won enemies and fans when it came to her support of African-American civil rights (see Marian Anderson) and showing up in all sorts of unlikely places (e.g., mining sites to see how the miners were doing) and then writing about her investigations in her column, "My Day." What a woman. She's one of the greatest Americans, and humans, who ever lived. (As is Abraham Lincoln.)