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[15 Jul 2011 | No Comment | 424 views]
“EXCLUSIVE: MISSING BETTY FORD”

By Mary Thom
July 14, 2011

The author, editor of the WMC Exclusives, recalls a moment decades ago that encapsulates the power and purpose of the former First Lady, who died last week at the age of 93.

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[5 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 1,089 views]
REP. BELLA ABZUG – UNFORGETTABLE! The Congresswoman for Every Woman

A Take-Off on the Classic “Do You Know Me?” American Express Ad
By Mary Thom – editor, author and consultant for
The Women’s Media Center
In 1983, Bella Abzug, the former Congresswoman from New York, was a featured speaker at the first National Forum for Women State Legislators held by The Center for American Women in Politics. The gathering of 350 representatives from 46 states at the historic Hotel Del Coronado near San Diego was the largest number of elected women ever assembled in one place, according to former chair of the …