Myra G. Gutin, is professor emerita of communication at Rider University. For the past 40 years, her research has focused on American first ladies. She is the author of “The President's Partner: The First Lady in the Twentieth Century” and “Barbara Bush: Presidential Matriarch.” She has authored book chapters, articles and op-eds about first ladies and is currently at work on a biography of Betty Ford. A frequent media commentator, she is the immediate past president and one of the founders of FLARE, the First Ladies Association for Research and Education. Diana Carlin is professor emerita of communication at Saint Louis University. She teaches courses on and has written about first ladies for 30 years and is the co-author of U.S. First Ladies: Making History and Leaving Legacies and Remember the First Ladies: America's History-Making Women. Carlin has also published articles and book chapters on a variety of First Ladies and researches and writes on the topics of women in politics, presidential communication, and political debate.