Pat Nixon and Edith Wilson: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Two Iconic First Ladies
A new American FLOTUS podcast drops today featuring historians and biographers Heath Hardage Lee and Rebecca Boggs Roberts.
Former First Ladies Pat Nixon and Edith Wilson had more in common than what set them apart. Alan Lowe, the host on the newly launched American FLOTUS podcast sits down for an in depth interview with authors Heath Hardage Lee, biographer of The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady and Rebecca Boggs Roberts, biographer of Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson in a new episode that drops Monday.
The episode, “Edith Wilson and Pat Nixon with Rebecca Boggs Roberts and Heath Hardage Lee” draws on what the former first ladies have in common and includes discussions about the both of the women’s desires to be independent; their loving marriages to their husbands, former Presidents Richard Nixon and Wo…
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