who dicided there should be a first lady?
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For your edification, please know that Martha Washington invented the role of First Lady by necessity because her husband, George Washington, who had been the military leader of American forces during the Revolutionary War, was elected as the very first President of the United States of America, thus beginning the Virginia Dynasty of Presidents.  It was really rather amusing in the beginning as George and Martha, with absolutely NO precedents to follow, experimented with various forms of protocol.\n\nPresidents WITHOUT wives have often called upon a female relative, or even the Vice President's wife, to assume the duties of a First Lady.  Thomas Jefferson, for example, who was a widower, had to find someone to perform those duties.
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political leader who used her stature as First Lady of the United States, from 1933 to 1945 to promote the New Deal of her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as Civil Rights. After his death she built a career, as author and speaker, as a proponent of the New Deal Coalition and spokesperson for human rights. She was a First-wave feminist (although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment) and created a new role model for First Lady.
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yes because she will be the first woman president
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C. Rice by far!\n\nShe's more intelligent and not known for her mean evilness that Hillary IS and has been talked about by those close to Hillary.\n\nI also think that having the first female AND black u.s. president wouldn't hurt our world image either.\n\nI think the u.s. is ready for such a president... especially one as brilliant as C. Rice.
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Anyone would be better then any Bush. But I prefer Hillary, she is a stong, intelligent woman not afraid to stand up for what is right. She would have one of the best advisers in the world in her husband, he is the last president to be elected legally and also the most successful in 40 years.
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but iamgirl, what if the female president was so craptacular that we never got a good one elected because more people became biased against the ability of a woman to hold that position? i'd rather wait for a good one, but if it were two candidates who were about equal, i would vote for the woman instead. unless both candidates were absolutely awful, then i would want to man so women didnt get more misrepresnted.
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I definitely would. There needs to be a women president!!!!!
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It could be either, but my guess is a woman.  A Clinton/Obama ticket is not out of the question.  They'd have to put Hillary in as President and Obama as VP, simply because of his lack of practical experience in national politics.  2008 is going to be a very interesting year!
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No. There is no equivalent to "First Lady" for the wife of the vice president. She is Mrs. Cheney.
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Because the president is considered as "the most important man" or in other words "the first man" in the country, therefore his wife is called the first lady.
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Definitely Hillary.  We're ready for a woman president. She's ambitious, intelligent, and a bitch - good qualities for a female first lady.  But what would that make Bill - second man?
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Most definetly president of the USA! We need a great black woman to fix what dumbo bush did to our great conrty!
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I don't know who the repuglican will be, it really don't matter to me as I will never vote to shoot myself in the foot. But on the democrat side I think Hillary has a chance to be the first woman candidate, and even more possible that she might be the first woman president. She is a strong, intelligent lady that will stand up for what is right. She would have one of the best advisers in the world in her husband, the last legally elected president and the most popular and successful.
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Bill Clinton , no joke . Second thought was she will never be president .
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michelle bachelet, shes a she and i regret i voted for her. shes got a lack of character and is the first female president chile has. shes the daughter of an air force general who was killed by the pinochet regime.
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It's going to depend on the first ladies own agenda as well as her husbands.  Typically the first lady will address more "humanitarian" issues if they choose to address any.  An example would be that Hillary Clinton pushed health care reform a lot.
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Why not?  She can't do any worse than what we've had the last six years.  \n\nIf she were president, maybe she'd actually listen to the people and not her close friends and the retarded right-wing.\n\nShe prolly did most of the country running anyway as First Lady.