First Lady: Public Expectations, Private Lives Latest News
2004
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Stockard Channing, who plays the first lady on "The West Wing," hosts this breezy and informative examination of the role of real ones since Eleanor Roosevelt's day. The hour includes interviews with Laura Bush and Teresa Heinz Kerry, as well as Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barbara Bush and Betty Ford; and results of a USA Today poll on public attitudes toward the role. Summing things up is Barbara Bush. "They want you to be active," she says, "but they don't want you to be controversial."