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Obama Stands by His Criticism The Washington Post President Obama stood by his criticism of the Cambridge police department’s arrest of Harvard University Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr., telling ABC News’s Terry Moran he was “surprised” by the controversy sparked by his comment during a prime-time news conference Wednesday that the department had behaved “stupidly.” “I [...] On March 6, President Obama announced his intent to nominate Melanne Verveer as the first ever Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues. She’ll report directly to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The office and the officeholder couldn’t be more appropriate. In 1992 Melanne headed the Washington Transition Office of the soon-to-be First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. [...] March 24th, 2009 | Category: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, US politics, violence against women, women, women's political leadership | Leave a comment
President Barack Obama has begun his term with some very heartening measures designed to improve women’s status and economic opportunities.
His very first piece of legislation as President was the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay [...] March 16th, 2009 | Tags: Add new tag, equal pay, the White House, White House Council of Women, women in politics, women's policy | Category: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, US politics, women | Leave a comment
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