Her Way [antikvár]

PROLOGUEIn to WinRules for traveling with a candidate: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Remember to lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the President.Eleanor Roosevelt, in 1936^We'll have a woman president by 2010.Hillary Rodham Clinton, in 1991^"WHEN WILL A WOMAN become president of the United States?"The tantalizing question was broadcast across America on a Tuesday evening in September 1934. To many, the idea of a female commander in chief was perhaps a bit preposterous, considering that women had won the right to vote only fourteen years earlier. But for a young lawyer and women's rights activist named Lillian D. Rock, the historic day when Americans would elect their first female president was not hard to imagine.^Mrs. Rock posed her question to Eleanor Roosevelt during the First Lady's weekly radio program, broadcast from Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. On each show, Mrs. Roosevelt delivered a few comments about the news of the day before answering listeners' questions. Most of these inquiries were routine and even humdrum, but Lillian Rock's question beamed across America on the NBC radio networkseemed to surprise the First Lady, who asked for a moment to think before replying. While the Beautyrest Orchestra (the show was sponsored by the Simmons mattress company) played "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," Mrs. Rooseveh sat behind a silver microphone and puzzled over the best way to respond.