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White House Noshes: What Presidents Really Eat

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

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The First Ladies' Role in the Whipsaw Wars

Some first ladies love the job, others don't. Dolly Madison upped the game in terms of weekly parties and they were known as Mrs. Madison's squeezes. If anybody started to go against her husband's policies, she would disinvite them from the squeezes. She was a very effective tool because it was the place to be seen and heard.

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