First Lady Suite

About the show

The plot contains four unrelated stories and a prologue. Prologue A nameless, African American First Lady reflects on her place in history. Over Texas Aboard Air Force One on November 22, 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy's underpaid, overworked Secretary Mary Gallagher complains about her demanding employer to John F Kennedy's secretary Evelyn Lincoln before a foreboding dream reconciles herself to her place in history. Where's Mamie? The White House, 1957. Feeling abandoned by her husband's absence on her birthday, Mamie Eisenhower fantasizes a trip through time and space alongside Marian Anderson to prevent her husband from having an affair and to alert him to the racial strife that will soon mar his Presidency. Olio 1950. Margaret Truman attempts to sing at a Recital, but is constantly upstaged by her mother Bess. Eleanor Sleeps Here Inside Amelia Earhart's plane, 1936. As they fly over Washington in a plane piloted by Amelia Earheart, Hickok bitterly reviews her complicated relationship with her lover, friend and employer Eleanor Roosevelt.