First Lady of the United States Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Office of the First Lady == [[File:First-Ladies cropped.jpg|thumb|First ladies (from left to right) [[Nancy Reagan]], [[Lady Bird Johnson]], [[Hillary Clinton]], [[Rosalynn Carter]], [[Betty Ford]], and [[Barbara Bush]] at the "National Garden Gala, A Tribute to America's First Ladies", May 11, 1994. [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]], absent due to illness, died 8 days after this photograph was taken.]] {{Further|Office of the First Lady of the United States}} The Office of the First Lady of the United States is accountable to the first lady for her to carry out her duties as hostess of the White House, and is also in charge of all social and ceremonial events of the White House. The first lady has her own staff that includes a chief of staff, press secretary, [[White House Social Secretary]], and [[White House Chief Floral Designer|Chief Floral Designer]]. The Office of the First Lady is an entity of the White House Office, a branch of the [[Executive Office of the President of the United States|Executive Office of the President]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/ |work=[[whitehouse.gov]] |title=Executive Office of the President |via=[[NARA|National Archives]] |date=December 23, 2014 |access-date=August 27, 2017 |archive-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114220405/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/ |url-status=live }}</ref> When First Lady Hillary Clinton decided to pursue a run for Senator of New York, she set aside her duties as first lady<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-01/05/073r-010500-idx.html|title=Hillary Clinton Makes a Historic Move|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=August 27, 2017|archive-date=January 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114220421/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-01/05/073r-010500-idx.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and moved to [[Chappaqua, New York]], to establish state residency.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/24/nyregion/mrs-clinton-to-be-official-new-yorker.html|title=Mrs. Clinton to Be Official New Yorker|date=November 24, 1999|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 19, 2017|archive-date=January 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114220424/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/24/nyregion/mrs-clinton-to-be-official-new-yorker.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She resumed her duties as first lady after winning her senatorial campaign,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/10/nyregion/the-race-won-the-senator-elect-resumes-her-first-lady-duties-at-the-white-house.html|title=The Race Won, the Senator-Elect Resumes Her First Lady Duties at the White House|date=November 10, 2000|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 19, 2017|archive-date=January 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114220351/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/10/nyregion/the-race-won-the-senator-elect-resumes-her-first-lady-duties-at-the-white-house.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and retained her duties as both first lady and a U.S. senator for the seventeen-day overlap before Bill Clinton's term came to an end.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/04/nyregion/a-day-of-firsts-as-mrs-clinton-takes-the-oath.html|title=A Day of Firsts As Mrs. Clinton Takes the Oath|date=January 4, 2001|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 19, 2017|archive-date=January 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114220431/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/04/nyregion/a-day-of-firsts-as-mrs-clinton-takes-the-oath.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page