14 Quotes by Kate Andersen Brower

Just as presidents are part of a lifelong club, so too are first ladies: presidents are members of the world’s most selective fraternity, and first ladies are members of the world’s most elite sorority.

But most accounts agree that the residence workers’ devotion to President George H. W. Bush was more than customary – it was genuine, almost profound. The Bushes were generally easy to please, and the residence workers found themselves quickly at ease with them.

On June 5, 2004, President Reagan died. Right before his death, Nancy said, he turned to look directly at her, something that he had not done in more than a month. “Then he closed his eyes and went. And that was a wonderful gift.

First ladies are modern women with modern problems, joys, careers, doubts, insecurities, and crises. They are wives, working mothers, and political advisers who are transformed into international celebrities simply because of whom they chose to marry. They are often beloved, sometimes vilified, and they are almost always their husbands’ most trusted advisers.

I got real annoyed with myself for being so shy and quiet, and never having anything to say when asked to speak.