The First African American First Lady
I do not suppose for one moment that she is going to do a Cherie & try to pursue her own ‘independent’ career
She will come under a kind of intense, often jeering, scrutiny that her husband will not – unable even to get dressed without ‘worrying’ about it
Will she try to change the White House – like Jackie Kennedy? Bring Africa America into the furnishings etc? What about the menus for State dinners? The entertainment? Will she just concentrate on social or welfare projects of her own?
What will be the ‘racial’ makeup of her personal staff?
And how to bring up & protect those two little girls (another President without a son)
Does she want to be in the limelight or just, as far as possible, to get on with it quietly?
What we do know about her suggests that she is more than up to the task
But in that goldfish bowl?
As souls, ambitious, but low-born,
If raised past hope by luck or wit,
All pride of place will proudly scorn,
And live as they'd been used to it,
So we two wore our strange estate
Coventry Patmore: Angel of the House
