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What is the traditional role of the US first lady? How much influence do they have and can they end up being more popular than their husbands?
Our guests:
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Art Historian, Professor of American Art at the University of Pennsylvania and curator of the exhibition Every Eye Is Upon Me: First Ladies of the United States at the Smithsonian Institution s National Portrait Gallery.
Jill Hummer, Professor and author of the book First Ladies and American Women: In Politics and at Home.
Duration: 51min
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