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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BAARFFF!
Yeah, and she was also named after Sir Edmund Hillary.
A couple of years before anyone had ever heard of him.
Hillary is a ass tro nut
So she grew a set of b*lls, married a rapist, and destroyed or Arkancided anyone else who ever again refused on of her demands.
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeettttttttttttttttttch!!
Lie after lie after lie after lie after lie after lie after lie after lie after lie after lie after lie after lie
Well, she is famous.... so if there is to be a woman's hall of fame, I suppose she should be in it... If we can prove she's a woman ;~D
wanted to be a astronaut......became a crook
Good points......
And she wanted to be a Marine, too.
Well...had to do something with those 6's. Ecce beast!
She also claimed to be named after Edmund Hillary after he topped Mt. Everest. I wonder what her parents called her from 1947 until 1953?
I don't believe this story. I want to see a copy of the letter and the response.
She is a pathological liar.
Yeah, just like the time that the Hildebeast was going to join the military while working as a staffer on Capitol Hill during her behind the scenes persecution of Pres. Nixon.
... and where are the children she thought of adopting when chelsea was coming of age?
A Saturn V booster shoved up her a$$.
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