Hello friends, welcome!

So glad you're here with me for another episode of Here's Work, it's interesting.

Today we're going to talk about a first lady who never got the opportunity to step foot

inside the White House because she died!

Can you call her a first lady?

We'll discuss, we'll discuss.

She died after her husband won his presidential election, but before he was inaugurated,

you see how this is like a little murky?

She did, however, have an undeniably major impact on her husband's two-term presidency.

And I know we all love to hate him, but during this episode we're going to discuss the

lifelong and at times, scandalous love and devotion between President Andrew Jackson and his

wife Rachel.

I'm Sharon McBam, and here's where it gets interesting.

So on April 13th, 1827, a half a page of letters to the editor appeared in one of New York

City's newspapers, the evening post.

These printed letters all weighed in on the same topic, and they were only a handful

of the letters that were regularly showing up in the mailrooms of newspapers across the

country.

Everyone had an opinion.

And the subject of the debate, the good name and reputation of Rachel Donaldson Jackson,

the wife of presidential candidate Andrew Jackson.

For Rachel, no one had really questioned the suitability of a presidential candidate's

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