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Women's hall of fame honors Hillary Clinton, Maya Lin [Hillary wanted to be an astronaut...]
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Posted on 10/08/2005 1:54:06 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Women's hall of fame honors Hillary Clinton, Maya Lin Saturday October 08, 2005 By BEN DOBBIN Associated Press Writer

SENECA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) Inspired by Alan Shepard, the first American to journey into space, a 14-year-old from suburban Chicago wrote a letter to NASA in 1961 asking what she needed to do to become an astronaut.

Back came a curt reply: Girls are not being recruited by the nation's space program.

``It had never crossed my mind up until that point that there might be doors closed to me simply because I was a girl,'' recalled the letter writer, better known today as former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The rejection stung her to the core, opening up the teenager's eyes to sexual stereotypes, career barriers and discriminatory practices that soon came under assault from landmark laws beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

``We have made so many advances in the last 40 years that are really unprecedented in the history of the world,'' said Clinton, one of 10 women inducted Saturday in the National Women's Hall of Fame.

``I don't think there has ever been a better time to be a woman than in the United States of America in the 21st century,'' she said in an interview. ``We have a broad scope of choices ... that really are defined by who we are and what we want as individuals and not constricted by the gender we were born into.''

Clinton, 57, the only first lady elected to the Senate, was enshrined along with Maya Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.; Dr. Rita Rossi Colwell, who became the first female director of the National Science Foundation in 1998,

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To: Carling

21 posted on 10/08/2005 2:10:31 PM PDT by al baby (Father of the beeber)
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To: Sub-Driver
Hillary, we would love to help you full fill your childhood wish, and send you to the moon.

Permanently.

22 posted on 10/08/2005 2:10:53 PM PDT by kstewskis ("I don't know what I know, but I know that it's big".....Jerry Fletcher)
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To: kstewskis
One ah these days Hillary...

Pow, to da moon.

23 posted on 10/08/2005 2:14:27 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Bush to Blanco to "tighten up", so she called her plastic surgeon)
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To: Carling
Its true here she is flying solo for the first time


24 posted on 10/08/2005 2:14:53 PM PDT by al baby (Father of the beeber)
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To: Sub-Driver

they blasted the beast into space and the aliens stamped her return to sender.


25 posted on 10/08/2005 2:16:30 PM PDT by JohnLongIsland
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To: Sub-Driver
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I think she originated in space

26 posted on 10/08/2005 2:19:15 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Sub-Driver
Back came a curt reply: Girls are not being recruited by the nation's space program.

Not that I doubt Hillary's veracity, but I would like to see that letter!

27 posted on 10/08/2005 2:19:15 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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To: operation clinton cleanup

No, actually I thing they told her they already had enough monkeys.


28 posted on 10/08/2005 2:21:04 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Bush to Blanco to "tighten up", so she called her plastic surgeon)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hillary's from Uranus alright.


29 posted on 10/08/2005 2:21:55 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth
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To: Sub-Driver
[Hillary wanted to be an astronaut...]

It's not too late.

30 posted on 10/08/2005 2:23:02 PM PDT by TigersEye (Where am I? What am I doing?)
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To: Sub-Driver
Inspired by Alan Shepard, the first American to journey into space, a 14-year-old from suburban Chicago wrote a letter to NASA in 1961 asking what she needed to do to become an astronaut.

Back came a curt reply: Girls are not being recruited by the nation's space program.

Does this mean they were only recruiting 14 year old boys at the time?

31 posted on 10/08/2005 2:23:33 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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To: Sub-Driver

So she wanted to be a Marine astronaut. All this time I thought she was acting macho just to pick up chicks.


32 posted on 10/08/2005 2:25:52 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (We Gave Peace A Chance. It Didn't Work Out. Search keyword: 09-11-01.)
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JUST $5 A MONTH
STAMPS OUT FREEPATHONS



33 posted on 10/08/2005 2:27:21 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Keeping an eye on the Sidebeer Moderator)
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To: Sub-Driver
And,just in case anyone is interested,I always wanted to become a brain surgeon. Neeless to say,I never made that or my second choice,rocket scientist.

I think, I have made my point. Who cares?

34 posted on 10/08/2005 2:28:56 PM PDT by jos65
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To: Sub-Driver

I just puked up something round, and brown, and fuzzy.

Oh, its my a$$hole!


35 posted on 10/08/2005 2:30:10 PM PDT by lawdude (Liberalism is a mental disease.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I say to heck with conservative opposition to taxpayer funded space programs! Give Hillary command of her own ship and make Shiela Jackson Lee the Navigator.


36 posted on 10/08/2005 2:33:22 PM PDT by TigersEye (She recalls the minutest details of her childhood but nothing at all of her law career.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Hillary said was named for Sir Edmond Hillary, the first white man to climb Mt. Everest (his Sherpa guide probably got there first).
37 posted on 10/08/2005 2:34:37 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: al baby

R O T F L M A O


38 posted on 10/08/2005 2:36:24 PM PDT by calrighty ( Terrorists are like cockroaches . Kill em all soon, so they will find out there ain't no virgins)
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To: johnny7

Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh.

?:^)


39 posted on 10/08/2005 2:36:49 PM PDT by spinestein (Forget the Golden Rule. Remember the Brazen Rule.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Another lie like the time she wanted to enlist in the Marines.

We are now supposed to believe that the reason she didn't become an astronaut is that she was discriminated against. I am really sick of this pathological liar.


40 posted on 10/08/2005 2:37:30 PM PDT by putupjob
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