Although first spouses tend to be more popular than their partners in their equal parts policy and public relations role, they are not immune to making mistakes. Here are some examples following FLOTUS's recent misstep.
Although first spouses tend to be more popular than their partners in their equal parts policy and public relations role, they are not immune to making mistakes.Ronald Reagan biographer Craig Shirley criticized Biden's"play" for Iowa as"crass and transparent," though Democrats have reordered their 2024 presidential nominating calendar.
"Eleanor Roosevelt was both beloved and hated," he said of the first lady whose early support of civil rights jeopardized the New Deal."When she died, Bill Buckley quipped about her funeral, 'Some came to mourn, some came to celebrate, and some came to make sure.' I come down on the side of admiring. Mrs. Roosevelt put up with a lot and she did a lot too."
"The case of Rachel Jackson is an odd one," he added."She never lived to see her husband Andrew serve as president. But the circumstances of her first marriage and whether she was properly divorced or not always hung over the Jacksons and fueled rumors of her adultery with him. The basketball bungle is not the first time Biden has dropped the political ball after her former communications director had to express regret over the first lady telling the UnidosUS 2022 Annual Conference last summer in San Antonio that the Latino and Hispanic community is "as unique as the breakfast tacos."
“He hadn’t asked Harris to do anything he hadn’t done as vice president," Chris Whipple wrote in his book, The Fight of His Life. Here are two other instances in which a White House spouse has caused a political headache for their partner:Former first lady Melania Trump set social media alight when she boarded Air Force Two in the summer of 2018 wearing a $39 green Zara rain jacket with white graffiti on the back that read,"I Really Don't Care Do U." Her trip was to McAllen, Texas, a border community, which, at the time, was under pressure from her husband's migrant family separation crisis.
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