Speaking of awards, Clinton Inducted Into Women’s Hall of Fame
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. 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.
According to the NWHF, “first First Lady ever to be elected to the United States Senate and NY State’s first woman senator”
I wonder when she figured out how many doors would open to her from the White House?
October 10, 2005 - 07:45 PM on October 10th, 2005
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