Clinton Inducted Into Women's Hall of Fame

[NVMojo]

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.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2005/oct/08/100802407.html

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

1. Interesting tidbit about Senator Clinton

Maybe this induction should have waited until she is elected President....

What are the numbers on Laura being inducted into this HoF?

[NVMojo]

2. but I think that this timing is exactly in line to help her run for Prez

[CoffeeCat]

3. I thought you meant Bill Clinton!!!!

Ok, I must be realllly tired.

[NVMojo]

4. I thought the same thing when I first saw this headline at the Sun page

that's why I read it!!! HAHA!!! I am not only tired but ...twisted ...

[CoffeeCat]

5. LOL! I read the headline and I thought...

...well he certainly DID have a way with women! He could walk out of a convent with a date.

I thought maybe these women were paying homage to him--for his humanitarian work.

There is something about that man though. I shook hands with him at a campaign rally, and I tell ya--that handshake. He's amazing.

/giddy school girl rambling off

[Kat45]

6. I thought it was him when I read it too.

I thought maybe it was an honorary thing, you know like him being referred to as the first black president. :shrug:

[UncleSepp]

10. Me too - Bill Clinton, first black woman ex-president!

[NVMojo]

7. I know a Republican gal around here who met Bill Clinton a few years ago

and went on and on about how easy it would have been for him to have her ...she said all he needed to do was say the word ...

But back to Hillary ...actually I was impressed by that 14-year old girl who sent that letter. I totally believe she got a letter back like the one she received ....at that time ...

[Dancing_Dave]

8. Good moment for her!!!

But still, her chances of being elected President are close to zero.

She hasn't even dared to oppose the unpopular imperialist war in Iraq...well, that says it all. She either has no courage or she has no shame.

[MODemocrat]

9. Very nice, I love Hillary

She is brilliant, strong, and I admire her greatly. :thumbsup:

[NVMojo]

11. Agreed ...

[pitohui]

12. congratulations

good for her & well-deserved