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.

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.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation of valued old landmarks as well as great parks and wilderness areas. To me … beautification means our total concern for the physical and human quality we pass on to our children and the future.

I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.

While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.