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Youngest of the potential first ladies;
her husband is a Senator and author
of a prize-winning book. She studied
in Paris, speaks three languages, and
worked on a Washington newspaper.
A shy campaigner, she makes friends
with her charm and good humor.
Perhaps the most familiar name on
the list, she has been in the national
eye for eight years and has traveled
through Asia, South America, and
Russia with her husband. Formerly a
high-school teacher, she met her hus
band while acting in an amateur
theatrical group.
Sister of a potential candidate, she
already has had two opportunities
to become official White House host
ess in lieu of a President's wife. Dur
ing her brother's previous campaigns,
she was an active worker.
A Senator's wife; her father was a
Senator, too. But perhaps her great
est claim to fame in her own right
came during the '30s when she tried
a singing career and had a great
success in New York night clubs.
Ex-Gov. Adlai
Stevenson, III.
Vice President
Richard Nixon
She opposed her husband's nomina
. tion for his present job because it
meant giving up their home in San
Francisco. But soon she became so
enthusiastic about campaigning that
she left her sickbed on election night
to make last-minute appeals with him.
Her husband is one of four Sena
tors among the candidates. Twenty
years ago she helped him through
college by doing secretarial work
and making sandwiches for students.
She enjoys politics and has given
speeches herself for her husband.
Pick
Your
First Lady
Now!
With the Presidential election
just one year off, here's a picture
quiz to see if you can identify
the wives of the leading candidates
by JOHN HOCHMANN
Barring a major political shift, one of the men pictured
here will be elected President of the United States
just one year from now. As a corollary, one of their wives
or, in one case, a sister will become First Lady.
By next Election Day, the candidates' wives will have
become almost as familiar as their husbands as they
accompany them on campaign trips, shake hands, accept
bouquets, and eat countless chicken dinners. But this
year they're still relatively unknown, so to liven up 1959's
off-year Election Day, try to match up the potential can
didates and their ladies in this picture quiz.
Clues are offered under the women's pictures, and the
correct answers are on page 22.
Senator John F.
Kennedy, Mass.
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Gov. Pat Brown,
California
Sen. H. Hum
phrey, Minn.
Though her husband is the newest
entry in the political sweepstakes,
his chances are rated among the
best. She now lives in a state capital,
but even if she moves to the White
House, it will be only one home
among several.
One of the most attractive of possi
ble first ladies, her husband holds
the job that sent Wood row Wilson
to the White House. Her father is
president of Oberlin College where
she met her husband at a student
political convention. A cousin of hers
is a recent Presidential candidate.
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If a convention deadlock results in
her husband's nomination and elec
tion, she will be right at home in the
White House greeting distinguished
guests because her husband is now
mayor of a city most of them visit.
Nicknamed "Lady Bird," she is the
wife of a highly energetic Senator
and is credited with helping him
relax more since his heart . attack.
She loves politics, says, "It's been a
front-row seat on the human comedy."
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Gov. Robert
Meyner, N. J.
Senator Lyndon
Johnson, Texas
Family Weekly, November 1, 1959
Gov. N. Rocke
feller, N. Y.
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Senator Stuart
Symington, Mo.
Mayor Robert
Wagner, N. Y.