Women and the Nixon White House
About this Video
Join historian and Pat Nixon biographer Heath Lee and former Nixon White House staffer Barbara Franklin as they discuss the evolving role of women in public service. The conversation will focus on the Nixon initiative to bring more women into leadership roles in the federal government, including the influential roles that Pat Nixon and other prominent women played to promote gender equity in the 1970s.
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