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Edith Bolling Galt Wilson was second wife of the 28th President, Woodrow Wilson. She served as First Lady from 1915 to 1921. After the President suffered a severe stroke, she pre-screened all matters of state, functionally running the Executive branch of government for the remainder of Wilson’s second term.
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Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic Party's candidate, with a chance of becoming the first female president. But there was once another woman in the White House who came close to fulfilling this description - Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of America's wartime president Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Due to her husband's disability, she ended up doing a lot of the exhausting travel that would otherwise have fallen to him. This became particularly important as the New Deal took shape - with its numerous programmes designed to pull America out of the Great Depression. Eleanor would often be on the road, crisscrossing the country and visiting New Deal projects to assess which ones worked and which fell short.
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