Melania now shares the dubious distinction of being a publicly scorned first lady with one other woman: her husband's 2016 rival for the presidency and sworn enemy, former first lady Hillary Clinton. JUST WATCHED Former Playboy model to Melania: I'm sorry Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Former Playboy model to Melania: I'm sorry 00:29Mercer, not Roosevelt's wife Eleanor, was by his side when he died in Warm Springs, Georgia, in 1945. But it was not until Hillary Clinton that a first lady would be forced to directly confront such embarrassing and hurtful public allegations of her husband's betrayal. Unlike Jackie, Hillary Clinton had no choice but to address her husband's philandering in a very public way. Like Pat Nixon during Watergate, Hillary Clinton stopped reading the newspapers at the height of the barrage and blamed others, in this case Republicans, for trying to bring down her husband.

Source: CNN March 23, 2018 23:26 UTC