I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.

The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.