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'First lady' foists unfair burden on president's spouse In a feminist era, a president's wife should be free to do anything she wants
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The Constitution of our republic does not know the so-called first
lady. She was invented, I suspect, by American envy of the English
royal family, though it is hard to understand why we would want to
imitate that long-since obsolete institution and slightly subnormal
men and women who people it.
We are a republic; we do not need a royal family -- not even a
temporary one. A president presumably will have a wife and maybe
children (and in days to come perhaps a husband). So call her or...
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Women activists find open door at White House
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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White House finds time for families
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Women of the White House
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