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Was about 45 minutes. Thank you, kelly, and want to thank the Veterans AffairsMedical Center here in cincinnati and the allwomens American Legion post 644 for making it possible for me to be here today. And i want to make a special thank you to booktv for helping us spread the word about the longburied treasure of americas military women. This program has given us an opportunity to tell you about a National Treasure which has been all but completely absent with leave from americas historical memory. Even when United States history was required as a summit in high school and subject in the high school and colleges and many universities, textbooks and courses had very little to say about women, how they had ....
success is promoting women in the federal government. the administration is led by the staff assistant to president nixon who was hired in many 971 to end list female candidates to fill high-level positions. this is about an hour and a half. [applause] good evening. i m the archivist of the united states, and it s a pleasure to welcome you this evening, and a special welcome to our c-span viewers. tonight we have a distinguished panel. i will take a little-discussed topic, the role of women in the administration of president richard m. nixon. our panelists will discuss how the tenure of the nixon-appointed women shaped opportunities for later generations of women as presidential assistants and advisers and heads of agencies and departments. i want to extend our thanks to barbara franklin and the richard nixon foundation. ron walker, who is chairman of the foundation, is with us tonight. where are you, ron? was with us tonight. [laughter] a special thanks to him for, u ....
. all but comely absent with leave from america s historical memory. even when united states history was required as a subject in high school and colleges and many universities, textbooks and courses had very little to say about women, how they had contributed to the winning of world war i, world war ii, the wars in korea and vietnam. as the writing team of a nurse and a psychologist, co-author dr. evelyn monahan, we have a combined 50 years of experience with the department of veterans affairs. now, you may be as surprised as we were to learn that the agency and the majority of it employees knew little, if anything, about the service of america s military women, any more than the average person on the street. this is, undoubtedly, the main cause that in 1989 the va published a bulletin for veterans day that had only male veterans on the cover of that bulletin. it was evident to us that including women in military history had a long way to go. our interest in world ....
be pro-american, right? because now america would be allied with stalin. so it was really a great day for them. the new york times article on the subject is titled, clergymen group opposes war aid. that s the american peace mobilization, clergymen group. the communists would show up to say blessed are the peacemakers, all right? their blowing up they re blowing up churches and people especially on the religious left, the great book i said was there a particular group that was duped more than any other, and he said, yes, progressive pastors. they re the biggest suckers of them all. and the american peace mobilization is a good example of that. yeah. go ahead. oh, he needed a microphone. al milliken, am media. in your analysis, how effective as propaganda do you see the way hollywood through films have picked the communist influence particularly, i depress, in the u.s.? yeah, great question, it s scandalous. it s horrible. it s absolutely horrible. and i would ....