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Hillary Clinton's planned race for the Senate demonstrates that First Ladies can have a political afterlife. A new biography of Eleanor Roosevelt got us wondering: Which of the current candidates' spouses has the most in common with the first among First Ladies...
...ELEANOR Niece of Theodore Roosevelt...
...ELEANOR] Went to finishing school in England where all classes were in French...
When Hillary Rodham Clinton emerged last week in her new guise as Senate candidate, she stood in a beautiful pasture, basking in the glow of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, for the moment channeling Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm rather than Eleanor Roosevelt. Meanwhile, her likely opponent for Moynihan's seat, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, was striding the gritty streets of Manhattan in the middle of New York City's worst blackout since 1977, looking, if not senatorial, like a take-charge Man of the People...
...first President of North Vietnam --Pope John Paul II, religious leader --Ayatullah R. Khomeini, leader of Iran's revolution --Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader --Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union --Nelson Mandela, South African President --Mao Zedong, leader of communist China --Ronald Reagan, U.S. President --Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. First Lady --Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. President and New Deal architect --Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President and environmentalist --Margaret Sanger, birth-control crusader --Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister --Unknown Tiananmen Square rebel --Lech Walesa, Polish union organizer...