saw of its use was in 1861 when somebody wrote about the wife of the president of the confederacy, verena davis. she's at the writer said she is the first lady of our land, you know just in descriptions other people have said it was probably used in letters, but it emerges in the literature after lucy hayes. i mentioned she took the trip across the country the first one to travel cross country. and so she's becoming a national figure and first lady comes into use in the 1930s it got capitalized. and now we're back to not capitalizing and of course my theory is that very soon is going to go out of style entirely and we won't use it, you know as soon as we have a male in the job. we certainly can't call it the office of the first lady. so i predicting we'll say something like east wind the east wing did this or the east wing did that, you know, we're first or first spouse or first partner. that's what countries don't do it. i mean, why do we need it? and certainly we don't need a title for the spouse of the vice president certainly second lady i really so this segue is really great into our

i'll see the royal families in saudi arabia, verena and kuwait have managed to preserve the status quo their counterparts and morocco, jordan and oman responded to popular protests by adopting limited reforms in algeria of lebanon and iraq. there have been occasional demonstrations, but the political establishment remains and power mass protests and so done in 2019 prompted the resignation of the countries president only tunisia has enjoyed peaceful transitions of political power based on a new constitution. ah, spite tunisia, success and reform, but country faces enormous economic problems including high youth unemployment. many young people leave for europe or the gulf states to find jobs. but tunisia, democratic system is working. a new president was elected in 2019 ah, among those casting of vote at that time was lena ban henney, a well known activist author and blogger, who spoke out to demand social and economic reforms. in a 2019 interview, she told us that there is more to democracy than free elections was for let you use this. so i would like to see the people of tenicia achie