the same time, she knew that that generation of woman could not any longer be content to be a mamie eisenhower, or one of the earlier first ladies who basically poured tea. >> suarez: michael beschloss, thanks for joining us. >> pleasure, ray. >> brown: next, margaret warner continues her reporting from post-revolutionary egypt. tonight, she talks with political activists trying to find their way in an uncertain future. >> warner: the road from tahrir square to a new egypt winds through modest neighborhoods like embaba in cairo. and last night, volunteers from the new "el adl," or "justice," party descended on this coffee shop with cheer and resolve, bearing brochures and campaign videos.

and she was a woman of hugely strong will, and she basically said, "i'm not going to be mamie eisenhowerng and going to all these political and other kinds of banquets. my job is to support my husband, to raise my children well." and she also took on for herself a huge project of restoring white house, which she rightly felt when she encountered it looked like sort of a bad convention hotel full of reproductions. he she had to raise the money for it, huge project. all of that done at the same time, a woman who was very young-- 31 when she became first lady-- but of enormous accomplish am and talent. >> suarez: a lot of the coverage over the last week has gone to her sharp and sometimes even a little snarky observations on the-- >> one or two. gillette great and the good of her age. that just shows she was paying attention, doesn't it? >> she was paying very close attention, and if you looked at the oral history, if there was one, of the first lady that was more traditional, perhaps a mamiize hour, i doubt she would have had independent opinions about a secretary of state and ambassador a

mamie think of her? >> didn't president eisenhower say during the campaign, "whenever mamie thinks of that girl being in the white house, she goes s-s-s-s-s-s," or a raspberry or some charming sound? you know, there was this sort of venom or something there. >> reporter: as they leave for the ride to the capitol, the amused young newcomer notices mamie seems to have forgotten that kennedy is the first irish catholic president. >> i was sitting in the car, president eisenhower and jack came out afterwards or something and she said, "look at ike in his top hat. he looks just like paddy the irishman!" i don't think she realized -- and then the inauguration. >> reporter: during the ceremony, we saw only her unchanging smile. >> mr. robert frost. >> reporter: but it was she who invited the first poet ever to speak at an inauguration, robert frost, who was faltering in the blinding sunlight. >> it was such a glare from the snow that he really couldn't see what was written on the paper. >> i'm not having a good light. and he looked like he was going to cry. and then lyndon got up and held his hat over it. >> h

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