Frustrated by the male dominated world of media and politics,Eleanor holds the White House's first all-female pressconference and grows closer to journalist Lorena "Hick"Hickock. Betty's public announcement of her breast cancerdiagnosis shifts opinion of the Ford Administration away fromJerry's controversial pardon of Nixon and makes Betty a popularfigure among American women. After Barack gets clobbered in themidterms, Michelle launches a new healthy school lunchprogram, which prompts a stalled Congress to enact newlegislation.
