Politico reports:
Unmarried Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says that
if he becomes president, he will have a “rotating first lady.” “Well, I’ve got
a sister. She could play that role if necessary,” the 59-year-old South
Carolinian presidential hopeful told Daily Mail Online in an interview
published Tuesday. “I’ve got a lot of friends. We’ll have a rotating first
lady,” he added. His sister, Darline Graham Nordone, resides in South Carolina
with her husband and two daughters from previous marriages, suggesting that
she would not be able to be in Washington all the time.
Historically, in the absence of a FLOTUS,
daughters, sisters and other female relatives have filled the role. Graham
would be the first bachelor in the White House since Woodrow Wilson, whose
first wife Ellen died in 1914, just a year into his presidency. (Wilson later
married Edith Bolling Galt in 1915, who herself assumed an important role in
the executive branch when her husband had a severe stroke in 1919.) There have
only been two presidents who were unmarried when taking the oath of office:
James Buchanan and Grover Cleveland. The 49-year-old Cleveland later married
21-year-old Frances Folsom in 1886 while in office; Buchanan remained a
bachelor.
Graham went on to say that his White House will be
more friendly and welcoming than that "distant"
Obamas.
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