Thank you. It is great to see all of you. Many of you are old friends. It is nice to come back. It feels like the homecoming. We have a great panel and a huge subject. How to know where to begin . This is about the first ladies as influence makers. That is the term that is itself subject to perhaps misunderstanding on multiple definitions. You have written among other about the book explicitly first ladies of the 20th century, which presume there is someone Something Different about them. Influence . Ou define it is a vault. It has evolved. We saw the influence begin as one that was ceremonial and focus, and since the beginning of the 20th century, and since 1960, we have seen the president ial spouse assuming more influence. It goes way beyond hello talk. Lady bird used to say that the first lady was the only one who could tell the president to shut up. And then, not be fired. That influence has taken various forms. Sometimes, the concerns of the first lady become the concerns of the
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