Posted on 10/09/2005 7:41:50 PM PDT by El Conservador
SENECA FALLS, N.Y. - 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. She got 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 Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as she was enshrined Saturday in the National Women's Hall of Fame, along with nine other inductees.
Honored with her were 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; and Betty Bumpers, a crusader for childhood immunizations who was Clinton's predecessor as Arkansas' first lady.
"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," Clinton said in an interview.
The first known women's rights convention was held in 1848 in this upstate New York village. The hall, which opened in 1969, acclaims women who have made valuable contributions to society and especially to the freedom of women. In all, 217 women have been chosen by a national committee of judges.
Six women honored posthumously this year included pilot Blanche Stuart Scott, a barnstormer in the early days of aviation; Ruth Fulton Benedict, an anthropologist whose 1934 book, "Patterns of Culture," became an American classic; and Florence Ellinwood Allen, who in 1934 became the first female judge appointed by a president to a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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On the Net:
National Women's Hall of Fame: http://www.greatwomen.org
I sure hate to be a suspicious old spoilsport, but considering the track record of the aforementioned--I don't suppose this 44 year-old letter still exists?
So she didn't become an astronaut... Is that why she's such a b**ch?
Oh, Hillary,....for a moment there, I was thinking Bubba made it into the woman's hall of shame, I mean Fame.
Wouldn't that be ironic, the #1 abuser, rapist voted in the Woman's Hall Of Fame? Wouldn't surprise me.
(Wretch)
Been posted before.
.......ya.......Right.
I assume Clinton has had himself designated "First Woman President," as well as "First Black President." Where does the mass hypnosis and psychotic delusion end?
Aside from that, I wish they had made an exception for her at NASA. I'd be a lot more comfortable with her safely isolated in orbit than I am with her down here on Terra Firma.
Ah, but she did. And she's still way out there, too.
"Earth to Hillary..."
Ha ha! My first thought as well.
Her thighness would have been a great addition to the Challenger crew.
It wouldn't surprise me that much. The NeoRatzi
masochist pig beasts of NOW, don't care *what*
he's done to women. They just want him to do
*them*...even the lesbians...he's their Masters
representative, UP here on the surface.
I imagine it was destroyed in all the church fires set by whites in Arkansas that Clinton told us about.
I just gave an incorrect link. Here is the right one:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1499112/posts
Hahaha!!! I didn't think of that! So true...
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