In 1966, Friedan, by then a national celebrity, went to Washington to attend a national conference for women in politics. She was not impressed. On a visit to the White House, she listened as President Johnson welcomed the conference-goers by addressing “the distinguished and very attractive delegates.” It was as if the President “figuratively patted our heads,” Friedan later remembered
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When Mr. Wyatt-Brown presented a paper at Princeton in the 1970s that included some of the themes he later expanded on in “Southern Honor,” a parade of historians and professors expressed skepticism about his unorthodox approach. Finally a graduate student in Southern history at the University of Pennsylvania who had driven to New Jersey to hear Mr. Wyatt-Brown, one of her mentors, rose in his defense. The skeptics listened, and they soon warmed to Mr. Wyatt-Brown’s ideas. The graduate student, Drew Gilpin Faust, is now the president of Harvard. She said in an interview that Mr. Wyatt-Brown had approached his subjects with “an understanding of culture and a broad set of shared assumptions that shaped behavior in a way that anthropologists were used to understanding - and historians hadn’t quite looked at it the same way.” She added, “He was very, very original.”https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/15
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The graduate student, Drew Gilpin Faust, is now the president of Harvard. She said in an interview that Mr. Wyatt-Brown had approached his subjects with “an understanding of culture and a broad set of shared assumptions that shaped behavior in a way that anthropologists were used to understanding - and historians hadn’t quite looked at it the same way.”
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