- Before I converted to the Catholic Faith I was the nation’s First Lady for eight months,
- I was the nation’s first First Lady to publicly dance in a ball at the White House and to have my portrait painted.
- They even named a popular polka dance after me.
- I loved gala parties and I made sure there was plenty of wine flowing . . . at my own family expence.
- I had a hefty inheritance having been reared in a wealthy home.
- I even directed the marine band to play a specific marching tune whenever the president and I entered a public event. That tune is? You guessed it, “Hail to the Chief”.
- He was thirty years older than I, a widower, when we married.
- At the close of my husband’s term in office I hosted a good-bye gala for three thousand invited guests. Some one thousand candles were burned and ninety-six bottles of champagne consumed. And, of course, there was continuous music and waltzing
- I supported my husband in his fight for secession.
- Eleven years after my husband’s death my daughter and I entered the Catholic Church.
- Many women sought my advice and I directed many to the Catholic Church. I was rightly “accused” of becoming “a zealot” for Catholicism.
- My funeral procession was one of the largest ever seen in Richmond Virginia.
