First Lady of The United States
She is now considered to have been First Lady of the United States from March 4, 1801 to March 3, 1809; as her father was a widower, she acted as his official hostess. She was the first First Lady not to be a wife of the president. She earned a reputation as an intellectual.
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“I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1954)
“Until about the age of thirty, a young lady can never go out without being accompanied.”
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“I cannot say what poetry is; I know that our sufferings and our concentrated joy, our states of plunging far and dark and turning to come back to the world—so that the moment of intense turning seems still and universal—all are here, in a music like the music of our time, like the hero and like the anonymous forgotten; and there is an exchange here in which our lives are met, and created.”
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