She is quoted as saying, “I enjoy campaigning because my husband makes the speeches and I receive all the roses.”
- Edith Roosevelt
- Lou Hoover
- Bess Truman
- Julia Grant
She is quoted as saying, “I enjoy campaigning because my husband makes the speeches and I receive all the roses.”
Lou Hoover, wife of President Herbert Hoover, served as First Lady 1929 – 1933. Despite her comment about her husband making the speeches she became the first wife of an American president to give public addresses over the radio, beginning with an address to the Daughters of the American Revolution on Apr. 19, 1929.