On Thu, 16 Feb 1995 22:01:06 -0500,
Kevin Gregory Tucker  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
>A longtime lobbyist from the National Woman's Party made her annual
>courtesy call to the White House to remind President Clinton that March is
>Women's History Month, and to ask him to prepare the usual presidential
>statement that kicks the month off.
>
>Since 1982 the President of the United States has recognized women's
>history month in this fashion. Yet this year, the official position of the
>White House is:  "Newt Gingrich has said we may no longer make
>announcements of this kind, so the President will not be making any
>statement about women's history month."
>
>Denise D. Meringolo
>National Museum of American History
>Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
>
Even in this White House this doesn't read like an official statement to me.
Is there more to this story?
 
Ken Yellis
Assistant Director for Public Programs
Peabody Museum of Natural History
170 Whitney Avenue
Box 208118
New Haven, CT 06520-8118
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