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Podcast: Jacqueline Kennedy and the Use of ‘Soft Diplomacy’
'American FLOTUS' new episode discusses former first lady’s mastery of language, symbolic fashion and media interplay.
Melania Trump: ‘I Was Taken Aback’
The president calls for the shut down of USAID while the first lady in new memoir describes how education conditions in Malawi in 2018 ‘weighed heavily…
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Jennifer Taylor
Fate of Past USAID Partner to First Lady’s ‘Be Best’ Initiative Is Uncertain
Melania Trump collaborated with the agency to benefit the well-being of children during her first term.
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Clinton Global Initiative Poised to Celebrate 20th Year
Plus, the National First Ladies Library & Museum debuts on-the-road programs in Florida and Arizona.
Melania Trump Is Well Suited in Official Portrait
Reaction to the first lady’s striking imagery is in the eye of the beholder.
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American Womanhood is Complicated. This Book Shows How Through the Media’s Intense Focus on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Book review by Stephanie K. Bohnak
This Week: Who Was the Real Julia Grant?
Virtual program on former first lady married to former president Ulysses S. Grant explores her history and includes a virtual tour of the couple’s…
Trumps Visit Disaster Areas in North Carolina and LA
In their first trip as president and first lady, the Trumps get a close-up view of the devastation.
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Trumps Hear Plea at National Prayer Service
Plus, an up-close look at former First Lady Julia Grant in a new FLARE virtual program.
These One-term First Ladies and Their ‘Enduring’ Legacies
Jill Biden enters new post-presidency age with an eye on elevating her causes.
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Inauguration Day Ushers in Second Trump Era
In pictures: The pomp, the pardons and the ‘presence’ of First Lady Melania Trump.
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Jill Biden Announces Plan to Help Military Children with Disabilities
In her last White House event Thursday, Biden described how a collaboration between the federal government, nonprofits and private companies would…
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