Eleven First Ladies Signed White House Engraving.

BESS WALLACE TRUMAN, Mamie Dowd Eisenhower.

Item Number: 120573

Signatures of eleven First Ladies from Bess Truman through Laura Bush on a White House engraving. The signatures includes, Bess Wallace Truman, Mamie Dowd Eisenhower, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, Betty Ford, Rosalyn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Laura Bush. The piece measures 8 inches by 6 inches. In fine condition. Rare and desirable.

Although the First Lady of the United States' role has never been officially defined, she has always figured prominently in the social and political life of the nation. Because first ladies now consistently publish their memoirs and because the public is interested in these increasingly independent women in their own right, first ladies frequently remain a focus of attention long after their husbands' terms of office have ended.