You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities. — Barbara Bush

On life in the White House . . .

One thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. — Jacqueline Kennedy

DID YOU KNOW?

• Mrs. Taft was the first first lady to donate her inaugural ball gown to the Smithsonian Institution, initiating its famous collection of first ladies gowns.

• Mrs. Garfield created the nation's first Presidential Library. It was located in their home in Mentor, Ohio, as a tribute following his assassination.

• Dolley Madison saved a painting of George Washington from being destroyed by British soldiers during the War of 1812.

• Rachel Jackson and Abigail Fillmore both taught their husbands to write.

• Unbeknown to each other, Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush both attended Smith College at the same time.

• Mrs. Pierce fainted when she heard her husband had received the party's nomination for president. She had no desire to go to Washington.

• Mrs. Coolidge received a gold medal from the National Institute of Social Sciences for her "fine personal influence exerted as First Lady."
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