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  • today.

  • I'd like to sing a little song about it.

  • I'm sorry, gentlemen.

  • Well, the song is not about these dummies.

  • Anyway.

  • It's a little ditty I've composed detailing the accomplishments of the women behind the men.

  • Every single first lady of the United States of America.

  • Please put two minutes on the clock.

  • 1st, 1st lady Martha Washington stood strong at Valley Forge and good old Dolly Madison, ST Martha's husband, George from the British in the White House in the War of 18 12.

  • These were not just wives of presidents, but patriots themselves.

  • Karen or Roosevelt.

  • Lady on a mission at a United Nations Human Rights Commission.

  • Just like a teabag.

  • You knew Eleanor was strong because she flight went in hot water just like me singing the song Lady Bird Johnson kept America clean.

  • Betty Ford, a Nazi waking to with you know what I mean.

  • Michelle Obama is an icon who put veggies in your school and like that.

  • Well, in Onassis, the epitome of cool Rosalynn Carter lobby for the Equal Rights Amendment.

  • Or is Harding ran a paper tell her husband, Beacon President Abigail Adams helped inform his politics and her son John Quincy Adams was of this number six.

  • Um, how many first ladies are there?

  • Just 45.

  • I hate to tell you this, but you only have one minute left.

  • What?

  • Oh, no, that can't be right.

  • Martha Jefferson.

  • That's just 11.

  • Now I'll have to rush.

  • Pat Nixon and Melania Trump and Farm and Laura Bush, New Hoover, Sarah Polk and Lucy Hayes.

  • What was I thinking?

  • Happy versus on the tragic type of Mary Todd Lincoln.

  • Louisa Adams, Frances Cleveland Elizabeth Monroe, Julia and Leticia Tiger.

  • Mamie Eisenhower.

  • You know Edith Roosevelt Jane Pearson, Felon Arthur.

  • I gotta hand it in me.

  • Carolina Now to Hammerson Helen Taft Ida McKinley High School into Lucretia Garfield Only seven more to go.

  • Abby Fillmore.

  • Rachel Jackson.

  • Margaret Taylor gets close.

  • You guys have Johnson, Edith Wilson, Julia Grant.

  • So close I can.

  • Thanks to Hillary Rodham Clinton, we almost had the first man.

  • Wow.

  • Two minutes.

  • You did it.

  • That's why the right man for the job is always a woman.

today.

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