#171 First Ladies of the United States and has there already been a female US President? (Part 1)
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🗓️ 5 April 2026
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This week we’re looking at 3x US First Ladies and their extraordinary lives: we have Louisa Adams (1775-1852), the extensively travelled Lou Hoover (1874-1944) and the powerful Edith Wilson (1872-1961).
And this week we’re asking: has there ever been an easier job than the policeman with a clipboard ensuring people cross a job properly? If you’ve got anything for us, do send it in: hello@ohwhatatime.com
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| 0:27.1 | oh what a time |
| 0:27.9 | hello and welcome to Oh What a Time, the history podcast that asked the question, have we finally discovered the world's easiest job or history's easiest job? |
| 0:49.6 | Yes, I think I have. I noticed it today. I was on my bike. And I cycled past a guy. |
| 0:54.8 | It's a bridge where a traffic going up the road have precedence over the traffic coming down the road. |
| 1:02.8 | So you've got to give way if you're coming down the road. |
| 1:04.5 | Okay. |
| 1:05.3 | And if you don't do that, you get a fine. |
| 1:07.8 | And there was just a little copper with a sort of a camera in his car and a clipboard |
| 1:12.5 | and he was filming people. I thought that must be that must be the world's easiest job. Eating |
| 1:19.6 | donuts, drinking tea. I thought you could have a podcast on or the radio on or music or it. He could |
| 1:25.5 | be listening to this podcast. Yeah. |
| 1:29.6 | And he was just holding up. |
| 1:32.8 | He wasn't even holding the camera up like they used to with speed guns. |
| 1:33.3 | Okay. |
| 1:34.7 | Decades ago. |
| 1:37.8 | Because the camera was wall mounted on his car. |
| 1:42.4 | Also, he's probably not got to write anything down because he's had the car is advertised. |
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