Presidents and First Ladies Trivia

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Nope, not Hillary, Gene. Anita and Laurie, you both win! It was Mamie Eisenhower.

My earliest memory of her was something my mother told me when I was in grade school. My mother rarely talked politics with me, but I knew she really liked President Eisenhower. I also knew she didn't like Mamie Eisenhower. Once she told me that the First Lady was an alcoholic. I do not know the veracity of that, but it has stuck with me all these years as to what my mother said to me when I was quite young.

If what I have read is correct, Mrs. Eisenhower would be the prime candidate for alcoholism as a military wife, amid rumors of her husband's affair with his WWII (female) driver, and then as First Lady in an era where First Ladies (except for Eleanor Roosevelt) were supposed to be way in the background.