No royalties for White House Cookbooks; no honoraria for speeches while on the public payroll; and no flub-dubs for Presidential spouses.

Instead, Theodore Vance will be remembered as a Presidential spouse who was tragically and inexplicably killed by a rogue Secret Service agent.

It would seem to permit any Presidential spouse to engage in official and semiofficial activities of a type normally preformed by Government employees.

Speaking at a class on Presidential spouses offered by George Washington University, she said she thought she had come to Washington prepared for the loss of privacy.

Memo to future Presidential spouses: If you're feeling overlooked, float a rumor that you might run for the Senate.

Pin Money Fund, established in 1912 to benefit Presidential spouses.

As the first Presidential spouse to have a paying job, she said, she would leave state dinner menus and other traditional First Lady chores to her staff.

To the Editor: Hillary Rodham Clinton is not the first Presidential spouse to be seen as a potential Democratic senator from New York ("Senator Rodham?"

A life of intense publicity is typically one that the Presidential spouse assented to but did not seek out.

Speaking a few days ago to some students in Conway, Ark., he said there was no "set" role for a Presidential spouse.