Yes, they accused her of murder and every vile thing imaginable.
“She was perhaps the finest First Lady in my lifetime”
Owf, here’s my ranking of First Lady’s starting with Jackie Kennedy. I start there bc she’s the first I was well aware of, and bc she was a modern FL unlike women such as Mamie Eisenhower and Bess Truman who were from another era. I posted this once on another thread and I’ll share it here:
Barbara Bush (a real “character”; strong personality yet “never put a wrong foot forward”)
Laura Bush (The perfect prototype for a First Lady)
Jackie Kennedy (Personified grace, style and class at home and abroad; original “modern” First Lady)
Lady Bird Johnson (Became famous for her personal cause of beautifying the land; a down-to-earth woman, but also a lady who had to balance her extremely earthy, profane, low-class husband)
Pat Nixon (Made it through Watergate, resignation and all the rest with grit and poise - what she must have suffered!)
Nancy Reagan (would rate her higher except some others needed to come first...if we rated only on love, loyalty and support to her husband she was A-1)
Betty Ford (Someone who was overwhelmed by demands on her life she wasn’t able to fulfill due to personal troubles - sympathetic figure but spoke out of turn too many times and unfortunately wore it as a badge)
Hillary Clinton (have little use for her co-presidency with Bill, but don’t think she was as bad as the last two)
Rosalyn Carter (the worst until the Obama’s came to town)
Michelle Obama (enough said)
I wouldn't put Jackie up so high because she, though personifying grace and style, wasn't really such a good human being. And I'm not sure I'd put Lady Bird above Pat Nixon. Pat didn't make much noise, but like Lady Bird, she certainly had to endure life with a difficult man and a very difficult time. Betty Ford did some good things, but overall I'd rank her pretty low as you did. It would be hard for me to rank Mamie because, even though I remember the Eisenhower years, Mamie was pretty much a non-figure. Eleanor Roosevelt was a pretty strong character too and was well known and active in her post-First Lady days. She did insist that Marion Anderson be able to perform at the Lincoln Memorial which was pretty cool. I don't know too much about Bess.
Hillary was a demon and Michelle defies description, as you've said.
At any rate, the two at the top both have the last name Bush, and it's pretty hard for any rational conservative to argue otherwise.