The spotlight did not appeal to first lady Bess Truman.
Truman understood the repercussions of dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
After WWII, Truman watched most of Eastern Europe fall to the Communist "Iron Curtain."
In August 1990, H.W. Bush took a stand against Iraqi aggression against Kuwait.
Lady Bird became the "perfect political wife" for LBJ.
Rosalynn Carter was a major figure in her husband's campaigns and policy meetings.
Nancy Reagan made things difficult at times with her stubbornness.
What would come Carter's greatest foreign policy achievement nearly ended in failure.
President Reagan needed to make concessions in order to reduce the nuclear threat.
Carter attempted to stop runaway inflation with a White House press conference in 1978.
Americans were held hostage at the US Embassy in Iran in 1979.
The delegations of Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan met in Geneva in 1985.
