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First Ladies of the United States: The Road to the White House

Portraits of L to R: Florence Kling Harding (Image courtesy of the Library of Congress), Grace Goodhue Coolidge, Lou Henry Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman

L to R: Florence Kling Harding (Image courtesy of the Library of Congress), Grace Goodhue Coolidge, Lou Henry Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman (Images courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Lou Henry Hoover and the Girl Scouts

Sepia tone portrait of a woman in three-quarter profile from the chest up.

Lou Henry Hoover’s work and advocacy for the Girl Scouts has been memorialized with a Lou Henry Hoover Girl Scout badge and the first Girl Scout House to be built on the West Coast - with Lou Hoover’s help - is now named in her honor. She was also a talented architect and designed the Hoover’s Palo Alto home, now a National Historic Landmark, which can be seen here. 

Pat Nixon

Pat Nixon’s life before the White House as well as her time as Second & First Lady is chronicled through The Nixon Foundation’s online exhibition, From USC to the White House. 

Michelle Obama