A Few Good Women Oral History collection

Hauser, Rita E., 1934-

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Rita E. Hauser served as a speechwriter and campaign strategist for Richard Nixon’s first presidential campaign in 1960. From 1969 to 1972 she was the United States representative to the UN Commission on Human Rights. In 1972 she joined the law firm Stroock, Stroock and Lavan, where she mentored other women and increased the number of women partners in the firm. From 1984 to 1991 she headed the American branch of the International Center for Peace in the Middle East. She served on the President...

Armstrong, Anne Legendre, 1927-2008

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Anne Legendre Armstrong was a United States diplomat and politician. She was the first woman to serve as Counselor to the President and as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, serving in those capacities under the Ford, Nixon, and Carter administrations....

Hitt, Patricia Reilly, 1918-2006

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Patricia Reilly Hitt (b. January 24, 1918, Taft, California-d. January 9, 2006, Newport Beach, California) served as national co-chair of the Nixon-Agnew Campaign in 1968, the first woman to hold the post in either party. In January 1969, the White House nominated her as Assistant Secretary for Community and Field Services (CFS), Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The post, which Hitt held until 1973, made her the highest-ranking woman in Nixon's first administration....

Hutar, Patricia, 1926-2010

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Patricia Miller Hutar (January 5, 1926-April 14, 2010) was an American Republican politician and activist. A native of Minnesota, Hutar got her start in politics as a leader in the young Republicans who campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower. She went on to hold top posts in presidential campaigns, serving as co-chairwoman of the Illinois Goldwater for President campaign in 1964 for Barry Goldwater and a director of volunteers for the Committee for the Re-election of the President on behalf of R...

Allan, Virginia R., 1916-1999

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Virginia R. Allan has had a distinguished career as an educator, business woman, civic leader, and national and international stateswoman. Born October 21, 1916 in Wyandotte, Michigan, Allan earned her A.B. and M.A. degrees from the University of Michigan in 1939 and 1945, respectively, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. Her education prepared her to be an educator and, with the exception of a year spent on a World War II assembly line, it was as a teacher of English in the Dearborn and De...

Bedell, Catherine May, 1914-2004

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Catherine Dean May Bedell (May 18, 1914 – May 28, 2004) was a U.S. Representative from Washington. A member of the Republican Party, she was the first woman elected to Congress in the state of Washington. Born Catherine Dean Barnes in Yakima, Washington. She attended Yakima Valley Junior College before graduating from the University of Washington with a BA in English and speech in 1936. After earning a teaching certificate there the following year, she taught high school English in Chehalis, ...

Lawton, Esther C. (Esther Christian), 1910-1998

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Esther C. Lawton worked for various U.S. governmental agencies as a position classification analyst. An early believer in the women's movement, Ms. Lawton served on a Treasury Department committee established in 1962 to discover the extent of discrimination against women within the department. Concurrent to her career in the Treasury Department were over 25 years of teaching at George Washington University. Throughout her career, Esther Lawton was a champion of women's rights and fair criteria f...

Bentley, Helen Delich, 1923-2016

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Helen Delich Bentley (November 28, 1923 – August 6, 2016) was an American reporter, journalist, and politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served in the United States House of Representatives from Maryland from 1985 to 1995. Born Helen Delich in Ruth, Nevada, she grew up in the neighboring town of Ely. After graduating from White Pine High School in Ely in 1941, she attended the University of Nevada and the University of Missouri, graduating from the latter in 1944. Following her g...

Franklin, Barbara Hackman, 1940-

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Barbara Hackman Franklin (born March 19, 1940) is an American government official, corporate director, and business executive. She served as the 29th U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1992 to 1993. Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, she graduated from Hempfield High School in Landisville, Pennsylvania before earning a B.A. degree from Penn State University and an M.B.A. degree from the Harvard Business School. For several years after her graduation, she worked in the corporate world. She joined t...

Eisenhower, Julie Nixon.

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Julie Nixon Eisenhower was born on July 5, 1948 in Washington, D.C. She is the youngest daughter of President Richard M. Nixon and Pat Nixon. She married Dwight David Eisenhower II (grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower) on December 22, 1968. They have two children: Jennie Elizabeth and Alex Richard. She attended Smith College, and received an M.A. from the Catholic University of America in 1971. She was an assistant editor of Saturday Evening Post in 1973, and has worked as a writer and ma...

James, E. Pendleton, 1929-

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Clapp, Charles L.

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Malek, Frederic V. (Frederic Vincent), 1936-2019

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Frederic Vincent Malek (b. 1936) was a finance company executive and governmental official. He was Deputy Under Secretary for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare from 1969 to 1970, and from 1970 to 1973 he was Special Assistant to the President for Personnel. As Special Assistant to President Nixon, he recruited and evaluated candidates for Presidential and other high-level appointed positions. From 1973 to 1975 he was Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and from ...

Cunningham, Evelyn, 1916-2010

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Evelyn Elizabeth Long Cunningham was born on January 25, 1916 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina to Clyde Long and Mary Whitehurst. Cunningham's grandmother was named Ellen Whitehurst, and she worked as a reporter for theElizabeth City Daily News. Cunningham's family relocated to New York City when she and her brother, Clyde, were young. Cunningham's parents decided to relocate after hearing Cunningham say that her life ambition was to pick cotton when she grew up. Cunningham attended P.S. 9 Elem...

White, Margita Eklund, 1937-2002

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Margita Eklund White was born on June 27, 1937 in Linkoping, Sweden. In 1959 she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Government from the University of Redlands in California, and she received an M.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University in 1960. In 1960 she served as assistant to the press secretary on the Richard Nixon Presidential Campaign, and from 1961 to 1962 she was an administrative assistant at the Whitaker and Baxter advertising agency in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 1963, she was ...

Knauer, Virginia Harrington Wright, 1915-2011

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Virginia Knauer served as the Special Assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs and Director of the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs (1969–1977 and 1981–1989). In 1959 she became the first Republican woman to be elected to the Philadelphia City Council, in which she served for eight years. She was appointed to the newly created post of chief consumer advisor to Pennsylvania Governor Ray Shafer. She was also the mentor and good friend of former North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole. ...

Holm, Jeanne, 1921-2010

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Air Force officer. From the description of Reminiscences of Jeanne Holm : oral history, 1980. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309740448 From the description of Reminiscences of Jeanne Holm : oral history, 1972. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376716 ...

Hall, Cynthia Holcomb, 1929-2011

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Glaser, Vera.

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Vera Glaser was born in St. Louis in 1916. Glaser moved to Washington D.C. where she worked as a free lance journalist before joining the Washington Times Herald in 1944. Glaser continued to work as a Washington based reporter through the 1990s for a number of different news agencies, including the North America Newspaper Alliance, Knight-Ridder, Washingtonian Magazine, Scripts - WTOP News, and the Maturity News Service. In addition to her reporting, Glaser was active in the Republican Party dur...