First Spouses

David Brooks and Gail Collins blog about the candidate's spouses. Interesting comment by Gail:

I’m sticking to my original conviction, though. We’ve had a couple of first ladies who affected policy in a negative way, by being overprotective of failing spouses (Edith Wilson, Nancy Reagan). And we’ve had a couple who captured the American imagination in a way that made them significant in their own right (Frankie Cleveland, Jackie Kennedy). But the only two who had a real impact on policy in the White House were Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Clinton.