House Recording Studio and we are very happy to be with former representative Barbara Kennelly of connecticut. And this interview is part of a project were doing to recognize and celebrate the 100thanniversary of Jeanette Rankin the first woman elected to congress. Congress. The first question we wanted to ask you is if you had any female role models when you were young and what drew you to those particular people . A lot of role models, to tell you the truth. My father was state chairman for 32 years, Democratic State chairman and he was National Chairman to the administration of kennedy and johnson. So i had the good luck to meet many women and men, of course that were in politics and chase wood house was a congresswoman from connecticut. And she was quite special and of course i did get to know her and ella grasso, as you know, was the first woman elected in her own right and i dont think she ever gets enough credit for that and she was of course i knew her very well. And what in pa
Wrap this up. H will be signing copies of the book. So if you dont have that, we have copies for everyone in our exhibit hall is just left, right out of the auditorium here. And then that first left there. And thank you all again for coming and enjoy the rest of your day. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. I really im carla hayden and im very pleased to welcome you to the law library of congress, 190th anniversary celebrate nation. It was on this day in 1832 that the law Library Congress was created as a depart of the library of congress by statute. Since that time, the law library has grown to be the largest law library in, the world featuring an unparalleled collection of domestic, foreign, international and comparative legal materials. This collection so large that the sub basement stacks of the madison building, which contains most of law librarys collection, is an incredible one and a half football in length. But of course, the impressive are only half the story. The law librarys de
faber was a crime akin to turning over the poems to theologians. so, i realized right away that this was an opportunity to revisit a story in changed times. and here s where writing about what you can connect to came into it. all of my books, with one exception, that book about research, have been about strong, remarkable women. karen horneye was the first, the psychoanalyst who took issue with freud odd idea busy sexuality. marie currie curie, and a book about one strong woman, a woman name hally flannigan. so, there was another reason that i connected to this. even though the love relationship had been floating around in the atmosphere, times had changed and this was a story that could be embraced, even celebrated, about two women who loved and empowered each other. and now i am delighted to introduce tonight s author. nancy malkeiels from princeton university and was the longest serving dean and the first woman dean of the college, a scholar of 20th century american hist
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i m sure. so depends on your math. host: who first used that, that term, quota queen? guest: i don t really know who used the term. it was first i believe published in the wall street journal, but i can t tell you who came up with the quota queen term. i think they were just copying from somebody early on. host: was it a fair term? guest: no. host: why not? guest: because i wasn t a queen, and i didn t believe in quotas so [laughter] i guess somebody liked the fact that there were two qs, so .. the media soon defined to me. i kept waiting for the white house to put together a strategy. meanwhile, the right wing had the field to itself. guest: that s true. host: you go on to write that conflated three racialized images welfare, quotas and unmarried loud demanding black women. heit became part of an organized campaign that continues still to convert the 1960s slogan power to the people into quotas for unqualified and undeserving black people. the right win