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The First Lady Public Expectations, Private Lives
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Stockard ChanningStockard Channing: Television, screen and stage star Stockard Channing hosts the PBS special, "The First Lady: Public Expectations, Private Lives." She plays a first lady -- Abigail Bartlet -- on the NBC drama, the West Wing, for which she won an Emmy. Channing also has appeared in "Grease," "Six Degrees of Separation" and "Joe Egg," for which she received a Tony. She also won another Emmy, received nine Emmy nominations, an Oscar, four Tony and two Golden Globe nominations, two SAG awards and two SAG nominations.

Susan Mills: Susan Mills, executive producer of "The First Lady: Public Expectations, Private Lives," is the director of program development for MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, where she oversees the creation and production of programming for television broadcast, home video, publishing and interactive markets. Her awards include four national Emmys, 11 Emmy nominations, and -- for programs Camera workshe has produced -- the George Foster Peabody Award, Columbia University's DuPont Award, Ohio State's Journalism Award and the Gavel Award from the American Bar Association.

Ricki Green: Ricki Green, writer/producer/director of "The First Lady: Public Expectations, Private Lives," is a media executive, television producer, and broadcast journalist with over 25 years of experience in nonfiction television. She has won more than 60 awards for her television productions, both as producer and executive producer of programming for PBS. These include a national Emmy, two local Emmys, three national Emmy nominations, a DuPont Columbia award and a Peabody award.


About the Program
"The First Lady: Public Expectations, Private Lives" is a 60-minute broadcast created by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions and NHK-Japan Broadcasting Corp. in association with Ever Green Communications. It originally aired Oct. 25.

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The program features in-depth interviews with first lady Laura Bush and wife of presidential contender John Kerry, Teresa Heinz Kerry, conducted by Margaret Warner, senior correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS.

The broadcast also includes interviews with former first ladies Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barbara Bush and Betty Ford. Historian Allida Black and authors Gail Sheehy, Ann Gerhart and Kati Marton lend their perspectives on how some first ladies felt comfortable with the traditional role while others sought to bend the rules to varying degrees of success.

Results from a USA Today/MLP poll, unveiled in the program, show how the public feels about a presidential spouse who works and some striking gender differences.


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