Executive Papers, A Publication of The Hereditary Order of the Families of the Presidents and First Ladies of America. Issue 5, Summer 2008.
Issue includes:
- Message from the President of the Order
- Officer Reports
- Propositi for Membership (see Issue 1)
- Ahnentafels for Anna Prentice Cate (wife of Sanford Ballard Dole); Elizabeth Meigs (wife of Thomas Chittenden); Mary Fay (1st wife of Moses Robinson); Harriet Rebecca Lane (niece of James Buchanan and his White House hostess); Mary Ann Todd (wife of Abraham Lincoln); Eliza McCardle (wife of Andrew Johnson); Julia Boggs Dent (wife of Ulysses S. Grant); Lucy Ware Webb (wife of Rutherford B. Hayes).
- Revision to prior issues
- Several pages of diagrams showing how featured Presidents and First Ladies are related to other Presidents and First Ladies
- Ahnentafels for Sandord Ballard Dole, President of the Republic of Hawaii; Thomas Chittenden, 1st President of the Vermont Republic; Moses Robinson, 2nd President of the Vermont Republic; James Buchanan; Abraham Lincoln (included is an essay “Lincoln’s Eyes”); Andrew Johnson; Ulysses Simpson Grant; Rutherford B. Hayes.
- History Lesson in Brief: The Presidential Signers of the Declaration of Independence
- First Ladies and Their Special Projects: from Martha Washington and her concern for American Revolutionary veterans to Laura Bush and her efforts to promote reading and early childhood education.
- Presidential and First Lady Trivia
- Minutes of the Order’s meetings
- List of membership including Lois Goldsbury Macy who has ties to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, William Howard Taft, George Herbert Walker Bush, George W. Bush, (John) Calvin Coolidge, Richard Milhous Nixon, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Frances Folsom Cleveland, Nancy Davis Reagan, Elizabeth Wallace Truman, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Millard Fillmore, Martha Devotion Huntington, Rebecca Call Gorham
- Necrology of Order
