I don’t expect every First Lady to be adorable, cuddly, or approachable – that’s not how human beings are made. All I really ask is that they – hopefully – love their husbands, their families, and this country enough not to mind putting up with the crap that comes with the job. And that they fulfill the duties of their office with gracious pride in doing so, representing these United States as they do.
It takes a rare person to thrive gracefully in the position, especially these days. And if that wife is by nature a reticent homebody, it’s a particularly challenging gig. Or if she’s treated as abominably as a certain recent First Lady, whose incredible air of dignity overwhelmed all the petty slings and arrows she suffered and foiled their best efforts to diminish her radiant confidence.
It takes a rare and phenomenally strong woman to survive such ill use and emerge triumphant.
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