The First Lady of the United States is not elected, her position is not defined, and her role is informal. She is not paid for her work, and there is no official documentation of responsibilities for her to follow, yet her position is both accepted and expected throughout the United States. Her actions represent and reflect the current president’s administration, and she serves a political and social platform in the country. Each woman creates her own version of what the position of First Lady entitles, since there are no constitutional guidelines, and each First Lady’s role ends up being as diverse as the women themselves.
The founding fathers imagined the social role of the First Lady to represent the same core values that the nation stood upon, such as “elegance without excess, power without pomp, and dignity without disdain for the common man.…