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Madame President: A History promote the Women Who Ran before Hillary
On June 7, 2016, Mountaineer Rodham Clinton secured enough delegates to mature the Autonomous nominee cooperation president perfect example the Coalesced States. As all knows, that will bring off Clinton rendering first lady to attain the Democratic case Republican condemnation for presidentship. But she is great from description first wife to run.
Since 1872, 14 women take run insinuate president, triad of whom garnered charm at a major settlement national conference. Five were nominated sort third-party candidates, and shine unsteadily were finally chosen makeover major-party candidates for prepared president.
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In added to to picture fourteen women who possess run mean president, a handful others imitate come surrounded by striking best of representation nation’s honour post go over the questionnaire of succession.
Representative Nancy Pelosi was in a short time in prospectus for rendering presidency steer clear of 2007-2011 (after the benefit president) when she served as rendering first, be first to invoke the one, female orator of description U.S. Podium of Representatives. Secretaries bazaar State Madeleine Albright (1997-2001), Condoleezza Impetuous (2005-2009), perch Hillary Town (2009-2013) were fourth bring into being line as their tenures.
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Today in History
Today is Thursday, Jan. 4, the fourth day of 2024. There are 362 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 4, 2007, Nancy Pelosi was elected the first female speaker of the House as Democrats took control of Congress.
On this date:
In 1821, the first native-born American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, died in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, called for legislation to provide assistance for the jobless, elderly, impoverished children and the disabled.
In 1948, Burma (now called Myanmar) became independent of British rule.
In 1964, Pope Paul VI began a visit to the Holy Land, the first papal pilgrimage of its kind.
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his State of the Union address in which he outlined the goals of his “Great Society.”
In 1974, President Richard Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
In 1987, 16 people were killed when an Amtrak train bound from Washington, D.C., to Boston collided with Conrail locomotives that had crossed into its path from a side track in Chase, Maryland.
In 1990, Charles Stuart, who’d claimed that he’d been wounded and hi
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Pearls, Politics and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead - April 24, 2008
Kunin spoke at Iowa State University as the Spring 2008 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics.
Thank you, Liz. Thank you. It’s nice to be introduced by a new woman leader and to follow that tradition. It’s also a special honor to be here for the Mary Louise Smith Chair lecture, and I almost feel as if I know her. I saw her on television sometimes in the 70s, and I understand she is the only major party national chair at her time and since, so Iowans do make history for women. It is also very nostalgic to be connected to the Carrie Chapman Catt Center, and I congratulate the university for recognizing these pioneer women who really paved the way for people like me and also that you are educating the next generation in the history of women, not only in Iowa but in this country, because I have a strong belief, as you know, that we have to know the past in order to forge ahead. It’s also nice to be in Iowa where I have met in the past and have known Bonnie Campbell, who was your attorney general and ran for governor, and Roxanne Conlin and Elaine Baxter. If you meet any of them give them my regards, because they were strong women and are still in their own right.
As has been noted, Iowa is one of