What do Americans want of their first ladies? Doris Kearns Goodwin, Stephen Hess, Gil Troy, and Suzanne Garment look at the varying roles that presidents’ wives have played—and the public’s perception of those roles. Are first ladies supposed to be just ornaments at public functions and limit their public efforts to acceptable charities? Will any leadership role necessarily invoke comparisons with Lady Macbeth or Madame Defarge? And what kind of power is Hillary Rodham Clinton exercising that wasn’t exercised on a much broader scale long ago by Eleanor Roosevelt? (26 minutes)