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Posted on 12/06/2011 9:01:01 PM PST by This Just In
More Complete Biography of Phyllis Schlafly
Phyllis Schlafly was named one of the 100 most important women of the 20th century by the Ladies' Home Journal. She has been a national leader of the conservative movement since the publication of her best-selling 1964 book, A Choice Not An Echo, and a leader of the pro-family movement since 1972, when she started her national volunteer organization now called Eagle Forum.
Mrs. Schlafly is the founder and president of Eagle Forum, a national organization of citizens who participate as volunteers in the public policymaking process. It maintains offices on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. and in Alton, Illinois. She is also the founder and president of Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, a think-tank which has its national headquarters at the Eagle Forum Education Center in St. Louis.
Books: Mrs. Schlafly is the author or editor of 20 books on subjects as varied as family and feminism (The Power of the Positive Woman and Feminist Fantasies), nuclear strategy (Strike From Space and Kissinger on the Couch), education (Child Abuse in the Classroom), child care (Who Will Rock the Cradle?), and foreign policy (Allegiance). Her lifetime dedication to the problem of illiteracy led her to develop a phonics system to teach reading skills. First Reader (1994) is designed for the beginning child, and Turbo Reader (2001) is a revised version for the student of any age. Her most recent book is The Supremacists: The Tyranny of Judges and How to Stop It.
Other Writings: Mrs. Schlafly's newsletter called The Phyllis Schlafly Report has been published monthly since August 1967. Her weekly syndicated columns written since 1976, are distributed by Creators Syndicate, and appear in 100 newspapers, and popular websites such as WorldNetDaily.com and TownHall.com (now totalling about 1,820 columns). She wrote a monthly article for the DAR Magazine from 1977 to 1995. Her articles have appeared in a variety of anthologies and other periodicals including the Radcliffe Quarterly, the Wall Street Journal, George, and Human Events.
Phyllis Schlafly Radio: Mrs. Schlafly's 3-minutes-a-day 5-days-a-week radio commentaries (running since 1983, and now totalling about 7,300 commentaries), are heard daily on 500 stations, and her radio talk show on education called "Eagle Forum Live" (running since 1989) is heard weekly on Saturdays on 75 stations. Both series can be heard on Eagle Forum's website: www.eagleforum.org. Mrs. Schlafly's radio career began in the 1970s when she was a regular semi-weekly CBS commentator on the Spectrum series (1973-1978), and for WBBM Chicago (1973-1975). For four years in the 1960s, she was the speaker on a 15-minute weekly statewide radio program sponsored by the Illinois Daughters of the American Revolution.
Television: Mrs. Schlafly did weekly television commentaries on the CBS Morning News, 1974-1975, and on CNN, 1980-83. She has also written and produced several documentary videos on such issues as American inventors, education, and treaties. She has appeared on almost every network news and public affairs program.
Legal: Mrs. Schlafly is an attorney admitted to the practice of law in Illinois, Missouri, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court. She served (with the late Chief Justice Warren Burger) as a member of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, 1985-1991, appointed by President Reagan. She has testified before more than 50 Congressional and State Legislative committees on constitutional, national defense, foreign policy, education, tax, encryption, and family issues. She served five terms as a member of the Illinois Commission on the Status of Women, 1975-1985, appointed by the Illinois Legislature. She served as a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, 1983-1986. She has filed many amicus curiae briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal.
Education: Mrs. Schlafly received her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1944 (Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha, Final Honors). She worked her way through college on the night shift at the St. Louis Ordnance Plant testing ammunition by firing rifles and machine guns and as a laboratory technician investigating misfires and photographing tracer bullets in flight. She received her Master's in Government from Harvard University in 1945. She received her J.D. from Washington University Law School in 1978. In 2008, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Washington University in St. Louis.
Family: Mrs. Schlafly was the 1992 Illinois Mother of the Year. She and her late husband of 44 years are the parents of six children (John, Bruce, Roger, Liza, Andrew, and Anne) and 14 grandchildren. She taught all her children to read before they entered school and all had outstanding academic success: three lawyers, one physician, one Ph.D. mathematician, and one businesswoman.
Political Activism: In a ten-year battle, Mrs. Schlafly led the pro-family movement to victory over the principal legislative goal of the radical feminists, called the Equal Rights Amendment. She assembled the movement called Stop ERA. She is America's most articulate and successful opponent of the radical feminist movement. She has appeared on virtually every national television and radio talk show and has lectured or debated on more than 500 college and university campuses. Other political battles she led and won include defeating the national movement in the 1980s to call a new national Constitutional Convention.
Republican: Mrs. Schlafly's lifetime hobby has been politics, starting with working as campaign manager for a successful Republican candidate for Congress in St. Louis in 1946. She served as an elected Delegate to eight Republican National Conventions: 1956, 1964, 1968, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2004; and as an elected Alternate Delegate to three other Republican National Conventions: 1960, 1980, 2000, and 2008. She has attended and played an active role in every Republican National Convention since 1952. Her 1964 book A Choice Not an Echo is a history of Republican National Conventions. She was three times elected President of the Illinois Federation of Republican Women, 1960-64, and was elected First Vice President, National Federation of Republican Women (1964-1967). She was a candidate for Congress from Illinois in 1952 and in 1970, in two different districts. She received numerous awards for volunteer service to the Republican Party. In 1990, she founded Republican National Coalition for Life with the specific mission of protecting the pro-life plank in the Republican Party Platform.
DAR: Phyllis Schlafly served five terms as National Chairman of National Defense for the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution (1977- 80, 1983-95). Previously, she served as National Chairman of American History Month (1965-68) and as National Chairman of the Bicentennial Committee (1967-70). A DAR member of Ninian Edwards Chapter in Alton, Illinois since the 1950s, she served two terms as Chapter Regent and is now Honorary Chapter Regent. She served two terms as Illinois State Chairman of National Defense and one term as Illinois State Recording Secretary and Editor of the State Yearbook.
Family: Husband: John Fred Schlafly, attorney, married in 1949, died 1993; they lived in Alton, Illinois, where he practiced law. Children: John, attorney; Bruce, orthopedic surgeon; Roger, software developer (California); Liza Forshaw, attorney; Andy, attorney (New Jersey); Anne Cori, businesswoman (Kitchen Conservatory in Clayton). Residence: born and grew up in St. Louis August 15, 1924; married October 20, 1949 at St. Louis Cathedral; spent married life in Alton, Illinois, 1949-1993; since then in Ladue.
Biographies of Phyllis:
The Sweetheart of the Silent Majority by Carol Felsenthal (New York, Doubleday, 1981).
Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade by Donald T. Critchlow (Princeton University Press, 2005).
Awards: Mrs. Schlafly has received numerous awards for service in a variety of fields. Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Washington University. Honorary LL.D. from Niagara University. Honorary Doctor of Christian Letters from Franciscan University of Steubenville. Ten honor awards from Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge. Brotherhood Award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews (1975). National patriot awards from both the Sons of the Revolution and the Sons of the American Revolution. In 1998, the Ladies' Home Journal named her one of the 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century. She was named one of the Ten Most Admired Women in the World in the Good Housekeeping poll, 1977-1990. The World Almanac named her one of the 25 Most Influential Women in America during the years 1978-1985. When Richard Amberg, publisher of St. Louis Globe-Democrat, presented her with the Women of Achievement Award in 1963, he said:
"Phyllis Schlafly stands for everything that has made America great and for those things which will keep it that way."
President Ronald Reagan gave Phyllis Schlafly, a lifetime fulltime volunteer in public policymaking, this tribute at a national meeting in 1984:
"Eagle Forum has set a high standard of volunteer participation in the political and legislative process. . . . You've been out front on so many of the most important issues of our time. . . . Your work is an example to all those who would struggle for an America that is prosperous and free. . . . Our nation needs the kind of dedicated individual volunteer service you and Eagle Forum have demonstrated over the last 20 years."
When The Reagan Diaries were published in 2007, it was discovered that the President wrote on March 21, 1983:
"Phyllis Schlafly came by. She's darned effective. Her plan to counter the new E.R.A campaign is brilliant."
The economist George Gilder wrote in his book Men & Marriage (Pelican, 1987):
"When the histories of this era are seriously written, Phyllis Schlafly will take her place among the tiny number of leaders who made a decisive and permanent difference. She changed the political landscape of her country. In fact, by the measure of the odds she faced and overcame, Schlafly's achievement excels all the others'. . . . She won in part because she is one of the country's best speakers and debaters and its best pamphleteer since Tom Paine. She won because of her indefatigable energy and will power, mobilizing women in state after state."
Joseph Lelyveld wrote in the New York Times Magazine (April 17, 1977):
"Phyllis Schlafly has become one of the most relentless and accomplished platform debaters of any gender to be found on any side of any issue."
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Washington University in St. Louis, May 2008
Defender of Life Award Students for Life, January 2010
Lifetime Contribution Award Weyrich Conservative Hall of Fame, December 2009
Annie Taylor Award 15th Annual David Horowitz Restoration Weekend, November 2009
Lifetime Achievement Award Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, August 2009
Henry Hyde Life Leadership Award Speak Out Illinois Conference, January 2009
2008 Family-PAC Woman of the Year 16th Annual Family-PAC Boat Cruise, July 2008
The James C. Dobson Vision and Leadership Award, 2009 "Her exemplary vision and leadership, for the past half century, have been the hallmark of her life and a chief cornerstone of the pro-family movement. We are proud to honor her as a champion of the enduring values that make America great."
Phyllis Schlafly's Accomplishments:
First book, A Choice Not An Echo, sold 3 million copies in 1964 and played a major role in building the conservative movement. Defeated the ERA, a 10-year battle (1972-1982) against all odds including 3 Presidents, all Governors, 98% of the media, Hollywood, and big money. (The ERAers got 35 states, but needed 38.) Defeated the Call for a Constitutional Convention (1980s). (The Con Con advocates got 32 states, but needed 34.) Made the Republican Party a pro-life Party by leading the successful battle to put a pro-life plank in every the Republican Party Platform adopted at every Republican National Convention, starting in 1976. Played a major role in building the anti-Communist movement by starting 5,000 study groups on Communism (1950s and 1960s) and by 5 best-selling books on the Soviet missile threat (1964-1976). "Invented" the pro-family movement (1976) by bringing people of all religious denominations into the political process, first to Stop ERA and then to promote pro-life, and then to be an important part of the social-fiscal-national-defense coalition that elected Ronald Reagan. Saved the Homemaker's benefit in Social Security from a massive attack by the feminists and the Carter Administration (1979) to abolish it. (See P.S. Report, June 1979) Founded and built Eagle Forum, an army of volunteers active in the political process nationwide, and kept them informed and alerted through writing "The Phyllis Schlafly Report," published every month since 1967. Wrote 20 books on subjects as varied as family and feminism (The Power of the Positive Woman, Feminist Fantasies, and The Flipside of Feminism); nuclear strategy (Strike From Space and Kissinger on the Couch); education (Child Abuse in the Classroom); child care (Who Will Rock the Cradle?); the judiciary (The Supremacists: The Tyranny of Judges and How to Stop It); and phonics textbooks to teach reading skills, First Reader and Turbo Reader. Wrote a weekly newspaper column, distributed by Copley then Creators, starting in 1976. Radio: Semiweekly commentaries for 5 years on CBS Spectrum (1973-78); Daily commentaries on 500 stations starting in 1983 (already over 7,500 commentaries); and hosted a weekly radio talk program mostly on education starting in 1989.
She is someone I have always greatly admired...check out my Freep page...:)
God bless her. She tells it like it is.
Phyllis Schlafly is truly an exceptional woman and patriot.
Maurice Strong —”Best Buddy” of “Spooky Dude” George Soros.
Two rancid peas in a pod.
These two old farts had better be enjoying their riches on earth...time’s running out...Hades awaits them both for eternity.
Party on, “dudes”!
Which of the candidates have called for the U.N. to be evicted from U.S. soil?
Thanks This Just In.
You’re welcome, SunkenCiv.
Merkel and Sarcozy should just create a European “Commerce Clause” and the rest of the Communist/Fascist system will take care of itself like it did here. Commerce Clause destroyed our State sovereignty under the 10th Amendment and created an out-of-control Police State of Amerika.
The closest I have found is Paul who “advocates withdrawing U.S. participation and funding from organizations he believes override American sovereignty, such as the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, the Law of the Sea Treaty, NATO, and the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.”
This isn’t about Mrs. Schlafly. She is writing a warning to us all about a real life, real time contrivance of the Leftistsphere that many people need to know is NOT some pipe dream, some tin foil hat stink by some groupies of some nutcase on the internet.
She is writing about truth that we all must first, and foremost be knowledgeable of, must stand and face as fact, address, and defeat.
Thank you Mrs. Schlafly for bringing up, reviving this important message to the American people. It’s now our responsiblility to distribute your message to everyone we know, so they know, and can redistribute the message until everybody possible knows.
This is extremely important to the future of our Nation. We must defeat the Leftist radicals that are marching us into slavery to their idiotology.
I hate to say it, but it is the Newt with his Agenda 21 comment.
I don’t trust this guy because he is giving a blanket temporary amnesty to every illegal alien in the United States of America. His amnesty comments on his own web page number 6.
He isn’t American, he is a One Worlder with an Open Borders Policy.
I cant see many nations, especially developing nations, signing on. That kind of international tax would beg for protectionist economic policies.
Pinging the Agenda21 folks!
Freeper This Just In has posted a thread with a link to Phyllis Schlafly’s web site with a discussion about the Climate Change meeting in Durban.
They are all about the UN Agenda21, and the imposition of a worldwide tax. With such a tax, they don’t have to worry about Congress financing them anymore...plus they would become so powerful that they would in fact become the defacto government of the world. She is urging us to contact our representatives and to speak out about this Agenda 21.
If you want to be on or off the Agenda 21 ping list, please notify me by Freepmail. It is a relatively low volume list in which we have been exploring the UN Agenda21 and related topics. We have collected our studies with threads, links, and discussions on the Agenda 21 thread which can be found here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2738418/posts?q=1&;page=509#509
The fact that he wants to “replace” the EPA with another agency says it all for me.
Mrs Schafley knows who she trusts and just endorsed Michele Bachmann.
Just today Michele Bachmann called the UN one of the most worthless orgs and a complete waste of American money.
Having read that poignant article of Ms Schlafly’s earlier today, and in reflection of it, and many other articles I believe that many commentors who have stated that to connect the dots on this current administration one must read Saul Alinsky is in error.
It is the UN Agenda for the 21st Century that we must read, and comprehend to connect the dots on this Obama administration.
I believe from my readings that Agenda-21 is why the vast quantity of money from all over the World went into the Obama campaign, and will again this coming election cycle be it for Obama, or whoever THEY choose to continue their systematic destruction of our society. Our Constitution is in the way of their NWO. Our power in the way of enslaving the World to their lunacy.
Everything this administration has done so far seems quite in line with the goals of the UN Agenda-21 IMO.
The Agenda 21 Wildlands project is advancing further than most of us thought possible. There are now Gateway projects (multi-modal transportation projects) in almost every state. Multi-modal, for the Obama administration, mostly means trains, but if there isn’t much train traffic in your state, it could just mean a limited access highway across rural land.
Gateway is another one of those newspeak words that the left likes to use. Gateways are the transportation corridors and ports that link the urban areas across or through the rural lands that the left wants to depopulate.
Thanks for the info. Do you have a link handy.
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