The annual Mother’s Day Tea at the Eisenhower Presidential Library will feature America’s First Ladies Man Andrew Och.

Och is an award-winning television producer and author. He returns to Abilene to present Volume Two of his book documenting the stories of our country’s First Ladies titled Unusual for their Time. In this visit he will provide insight about Mamie Eisenhower and about a number of the First Ladies as mothers on this upcoming Mother’s Day weekend. “It’s hard enough just to be a mother in every-day life but to be a mother in the White House and on the world stage you’re under a microscope that’s really not understood by anyone who hasn’t been there, this unique sorority of women. And how each mother First Lady in the White House raised her children is a unique story in and of itself.”

Och noted Mamie Eisenhower was unusual because she was a military wife. “There’s a few other military wives that are First Ladies but she really ran the show, similar to a First Lady that was spoken a lot about recently because of her recent passing, Barbara Bush. What Mamie said went. She ruled with an iron fist, a gentle iron fist, and set the tone for entertaining in the White House.  And even before as a military wife one of the things Mamie excelled at and like to do was to entertain.”

In 2012 Och began a historical journey as he traversed America for more than a year documenting the lives of every First Lady for the C-SPAN series “First Ladies: Influence & Image.”

Tickets are $15 each. Purchase them online at https://bit.ly/2mpUSEA or mail a check to the Eisenhower Foundatiion, PO Box 295, Abilene, Kan. 67410.