Dr. Tracy Scott
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The wives had to go make speeches to different places around Houston.
They would make trips to the contractors.
After the missions, they went on state diplomatic trips to foreign countries.
They had a whole staff and an itinerary.
I teach a class now about this.
And this student said, geez, they're more like first ladies now.
Yeah, they were then.
It was a lot of work.
And one of my other students said, well, did they get paid?
And she said, well, could they say no?
You know, it was, again, it's a different era.
None of them had any idea they would be doing this.
They didn't have any training, but they did it.
And they did it really well.
And they held the families together during the week.
They were incredible women.
I don't think they see it quite like that.
I see it more that way.