what s it like being the first second gentleman? he s never been here. doug emhoff is making history of his own. what is your job? as he redefines an old role for a new generation. there s this toxicity, this masculine idea of what a man is. a father it s the kids initials. i wanted really a reminder. what s important to me. who with the vice president is marking many firsts. this was very emotional to be able to do this. while still trying to make time for each other. we re not each other s chief of staff. we re husband and wife. the opportunity of a lifetime for the former entertainment lawyer who gave up his job to support his wife. men need to support women. in this series, we talk to people in politics and pop culture and find out what it s like to be them. now being the second gentleman. what s it like to be the first second gentleman? i m only the first second gentleman because the country elected the first woman vice president, so i lo
what s it like being the first second gentleman? who we are has never been in here, these halls. doug emhoff is making history of his own. what is your job? as he redefines an old role for a new generation. there s this toxicity, this masc masculine idea of what a man is. a father. it s the kids initials. i just really wanted a reminder of what s important to me. who with the vice president is marking many firsts. this is very emotional to be able to do this. reporter: while still trying to make time for each other stwl we we re not each other s chief of staff. it s the opportunity of a lifetime for the former entertainment lawyer who gave up his job to support his wife. men need to support women. we talk to people in politics and find out what it s like to be them, now being the second gentleman. what s it like to be the first second gentleman? i m only the first second gentleman because the country elected the first woman vice president, so i
doug emhoff is making history of his own. what is your job? as he redefines an old role for a new generation. there s this toxicity, this masculine idea of what a man is. a father. it s the kids initials. i just really wanted a reminder of what s important to me. who with the vice president is marking many firsts. this is very emotional to be able to do this. reporter: while still trying to make time for each other. we re not each other s chief of staff. we re husband and wife. it s the opportunity of a lifetime for the former entertainment lawyer who gave up his job to support his wife. men need to support women. we talk to people in politics and pop culture, and find out what it s like to be them. now being the second gentleman. what s it like to be the first second gentleman? i m only the first second gentleman because the country elected the first woman vice president, so i look at it really mostly in that lens. i m here because i m her hu
Circumstances in which we took office and the time, really mostly focused on covid and vaccinations and just fanning out across the country. a lot of what i did was listen. a lot of small group meetings, hear what was happening right on the ground, and bring it back to the administration. there hasn t been a lot of time for the ceremonial part. maybe there will be moving forward. is there any part of you that thought i better do the ceremonial stuff because that s what a woman would do. i don t want to genderize it. i think we re a married couple, and we do a lot of these things together so if there s things that we need to pick out or the decorations or if we re having an event or i ll give my input, it s like how we are as a typical married couple, what we will do in our other life. we looked at things together.
is there any part of you that thought i better do the ceremonial stuff because that s what a woman would do? i don t want to genderize it. i think we re a married couple, and we do a lot of these things together, so if there s things that we need to pick out or the decor decorations, or having an event, i ll give my input, but it s like how we are as a typical married couple, what we will do in our other life. we looked at things together. we pick it out, and we re both busy, and we move on. so i m not trying to make it where this is my job. what is your job? first and foremost is to support her. we work in an office called office of the vice president and this office that you re sitting in is really here to support the vice president, support the president, support the administration any way we can. in addition to being her husband.