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The Role of the First Lady
Aired 5/14/1994

Think Tank attempts to answer the question, what is the proper role of the first lady in the 1990s?
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  Suzanne Garment
    American Enterprise Institute, author of Scandal-The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics
  Doris Kearns Goodwin
    author of No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, The American Homefront during World War II
  Gil Troy
    McGill University, author of Co-Presidency: The Emergence of Presidential Couples since World War II
  Stephen Hess
    senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, author of Organizing the Presidency

Originally Aired: 5/14/1994

   
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