Hello friends, welcome.

Over the next few weeks we are making a return to one of our most requested series.

I regularly receive messages from listeners who want to know when am I going to tell more

stories about America's first ladies.

So now is the time.

Over the next few weeks we'll make a return to the White House and to the women who occupied

it.

First, let's do a quick recap.

When we last left off we had talked about five of our nation's first ladies, Martha

Washington, Abigail Adams, Martha Jefferson, who actually died before Jefferson took

office, Dolly Madison and Elizabeth Monroe.

And we had also talked about the lives of some of the people with whom they were uniquely

intertwined, like Ben Franklin, the Hemingham's family, and political scandal, Mongerur, James

Calendar. But by the time our next first lady entered the White House, the era of the

founding fathers was coming to an end.

James Monroe was the last president who had also been a framework of the Constitution

and that nation was beginning to transform.

Railroads connected people and goods and services across the country and industrial growth led

to economic prosperity.

But even as the country saw new changes, the White House was home to a familiar family.

In 1825 John Quincy Adams, the son of former president John Adams, was sworn in as the

sixth president of the United States after an extremely unusual election season.

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