For eight years, I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!

Presidents don't get vacations - they just get a change of scenery. The job goes with you.

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.

I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.

For eight years, I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!

I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.