i need to point out to you because it's such a treasure richard and pat nixon had a lovely family of two daughters and they have four beautiful grandchildren, but you can see a nice picture of julie and trisha nixon when they were quite young and it's a picture of the grandparents so you can see frank and son the grandparents there and a beautiful poem by julie nixon on the left and i think she even got an a on that one. so it's entitled beauty. so it's a great little story to show you the wonderful family of the nixon's and also the fact that they were very well read and all one of the exciting things. i'd like to share with you is the fireplace now to supplement the income frank nixon did they did struggle a little bit financially, but this is a handmade fireplace and our lovely curator here at the library actually told me one day and said darlene, you know what i can drive around your belinda some of the older homes and pick out the chimneys. isn't that need to go? oh, that's that's a freight nixon chimney, so it's pretty neat to have that with us today and above the mantle there.

if you look at the ones since then, first ladies after ladybird from pat nixon it was volunteer-ism. carter it was mental health. you go down the list. some of them continue the projects as they want to the white house and some of them of course drop them. in general, those who did them well i think not only added to the legacy of their husbands, but they made a name for themselves. >> we have a lot of questions from the audience because first ladies is one of our favorite topics, we will go to some of these questions. the first question is from laura, and she is asking from blue lake california. and she asks, which first lady in your opinion was the most ahead of her time? >> i would have to say eleanor roosevelt. for the reason that i, she experimented with so many things. the investigations, the traveling abroad. taking a stand opposed to her husband. i would think that she's most ahead of her time and we haven't really match that sense. >> from eugene yeah in arizona, she asks has any first lady actually really relished the job? >> oh dear, a lot of them heated it. a lot of them

so after lady bird johnson every first lady except pat nixon who had her daughter do the job for her every first lady has published a book on leaving the white house. we'll we don't know about the current first lady if she will or not, but that's been the rule that they've all written the about leaving the white house. the time there next question is from darren from florida. please comment on edith wilson's role after president wilson had a stroke. yes, that's what i was referring to earlier that people think that she you know petticoat government. that was the phrase that she was running the government and he was incapacitated. i mean she didn't let anyone in to see him or only of the very few trusted staff members into sea. but if you look at the things that did not get done, you know, there was a major strike there were problems with deporting people from the united states who didn't agree with certain policies. she really functioned as more like a a barrier to people who wanted to get near him. so if she'd been really a door. it should really take an over government. she would h

why might not on this list customer is at hillary clinton, jackie kennedy, marcy washington or pat nixonplease tell me this was hillary clinton. [laughter] kennedy: it probably was but then secret service agent who found her whose break scott fiddled with it's actually pat nixon. god rest her soul. this is for richard, are you ready richard? let's do this. which president believed if he soaked his feet in a bucket of cold water every day he would never get a cold. was it john quincy adams? james polk, thomas jefferson or donald j trump? [laughter] >> i'm going to go with john quincy adams. before that was a bad idea. >> i'm going to play this straight that's probably true. kennedy: know you did not get it right. it was old cold pickles thomas jefferson. he maintained this habit for 60 years and he started his own fire and he put them out with this little foot soak. fun facts about presidential history. you and all expense paid ticket to guam in august during the season. >> great. thank you. >> i'm glad you won enjoy that trip. >> great time. man panel think al verplanck did a great job.

people embraced her warmth and her candor and seeming genuineness because she was a contrast to pat nixon who definitely was the beautiful political wife, but remember some of you may remember that her detractors called her plastic pat because she had been at this game a long time, you know since the 1940s when she had married richard nixon and she was very much a product of of that time and when the political wife's role was to stand and smile and look adoringly at her. husband and so i would if i had to choose one category for mrs. nixon, it would probably be reluctant. she said although i'm was such a trooper and everyone thought i was the most loyal political life wife. this is the last kind of life. i would have ever chosen. she did say that but she also played her her role well for her generation and in that way one could say she was a political partner and a political asset. let's see who was the next person who was asked about so hillary clinton hillary clinton. well, definitely a political partner, but i i you know, she certainly became a celebrity too and in fact speaking at bob

the wives went somewhere else and met with pat nixon in a separate setting. and so it was -- it was pretty amazing. and we redid that same meal on the 25th anniversary at the nixon library and museum in california and bob hope was still alive and was there for that. and the chef was still alive and he prepared that same meal again, including the peeled cherry tomatoes. at year 40, we went out to the nixon again, by then, it was a different setting. bob hope was gone, the chef was gone, the menu was different. >> no more tomatoes. >> no more peeled cherry tomatoes. i don't think anybody has ever ventured to figure out how to do that again. >> you've had quite a career since. did you want to tell us a little about your time -- >> when i came home -- when we got to the philippines, the personnel officers met with all the recently repatriated prisoners to get our next assignments. and so they asked me, okay, you can go to pilot training, you can have any assignment you want that you're medically qualified to fulfill. if you want to go to pilot training, you can d

and pat nixon was unhappy because the ground was pretty soft from the rain, and they'd run canvassedunners to all the tables, and that was pretty fun, but long dresses got mud on them, and there were two waiters for every table. 180 tables, and one was a wine steward and the other was a food waiter, and the menu was amazing. the -- they kept the white wines and the champagne in canoes filled with ice, a bucket wouldn't work for that much, and there was wine for the appetizer and there was a different wine for the entree. the salad was kind of amazing. the white house chef had prepared the menu and the salad included cherry tomatoes that were peeled for 1800 people. now how they peeled them, i have no clue, but i was amazed. this was uniquely different from anything i'd ever seen before, and then so the dinner went well. the bob hope show went on. the president spoke to us and the next table over was henry kissinger and he was there and it was a big deal and in the afternoon before that, the p.o.w.s had gone to the state department and where the president had addressed us in an audito

the wives went somewhere else with pat nixon in a separate setting. it was pre-amazing. -- it was pretty amazing. we redid that same meal on the 25th anniversary of the nixon library in california. bob hope was still alive and was there for that. the chef was still alive and he prepared that same meal again, including the peeled cherry tomatoes. at year 40, we went out to the nixon again, but by then, it was a different setting. bob hope was gone, the chef was gone. ed: no more tomatoes? robert: no more peeled cherry tomatoes. i don't know that anyone has figured out how to do that again. ed:ventured to figure out how to that again. >> you have had quite a career since. do you want to tell us about your time? robert: when we got to the philippines, personnel officers met with the recently repatriated prisoners, to get our next assignments. so they asked me, ok, you can go you have any assignment you want to pilot training. you have any assignment you want that you're medically qualified to fulfill. so if you were going to go to pilot training you can