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Rights amendment. She was the first incumbent first lady to disclose purposely her prochoice view. Court ev and she publicly called for the appointment of a woman on the. Even before she started lobbying her husband too do so. Break in conclusion, first ladies thr continue to break barriers. They continue to forth new notg roles. They do it in their own way. Get and there is nothing wrong with that. They can use their special voice to get messages out to draw attention to causes. Rose lynn carter once said that she felt that she was in a special position and that it was her duty to use that role to promote causes. Thank you. [ applause ] with the senate in the august break, well feature become tv programming weeknights in prime time on cspan 2 starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. And for the weekends here are a few book tv special programs. On saturday, were live from jackson, mississippi, for the mississippi book festival beginning at 11 30 with decisions on harper lee and the civil war. O ....
And then we have pat nixon. Pat nixon is one of the first ladies that weve talked about,m probably the first lady born into the poorest circumstances. Born in eli, nevada, which is nowheres ville in nevada. Her father had numerous different occupations. He sailer, miner, farmhand, truck driver. He died when pat was 18. Sher mom died when she was 14. She had a high school education. Her parents had already died. But what she did was she worked her way through school. And she went to junior college. R she went to usc and eventually got a bachelor degree in equiv merchandising and got a certificate which was the equivalent of a masters degree at usc to teach high school. And so she is actually the first, first lady to have a e h graduate degree. She married Richard Nixon at age 28. And like i mentioned, she had a wide variety of jobs. Pat nixon would do anything to earn the money to pay her way it through college. She was a janitor. S ....
For the media. By the time they sold it in the 80s, it was huge and provided the family with substantial earnings. Then mrs. Johnson took some of the funds, investments, and she invested it into large ranching operations. She alsoarly managed those. She was an early civil rights advocate. She was so strongly inigne supp of the civil right act, that she was there when lbj signed that bill. She was the only woman in the room in 1964 when he signed gly that. She also was very strongly interested in an advocate of women seeking higher education. Most known for the Beautification Programs. The Beautification Program ssin wasnt justg. Planting flowers. The Beautification Program was very encompassing. Care of urban life, cleaning up the highways. L there were environmental ark elements. There were pollu ....