From precinct worker to Assistant Secretary of The Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Subtitle: and related material
By: Patricia Reilly Hitt; tape recorded interview conducted by Miriam Stein in 1977. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1980 :
Contributors: Stein, Mimi.; Finch, Robert H., 1925-; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; California Women Political Leaders Oral History Project.
Published: 1977
Subjects: Republican Party (Calif.); Republican National Committee (U.S.); United States. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare.; John Birch Society.; Women in politics -- United States.; California -- Politics and government.; United States -- Politics and government.
Description: Reflections on her work in the Repulican Party - in women's organizations, as precinct worker, in state and national campaigns (particularly the 1958, 1962 and 1966 gubernatorial campaigns in California and the 1960, 1964 and 1968 presidential campaigns), and as national committeewoman, 1960-1964; her appointment to HEW as assistant secretary for community and field services, 1969-1972; the influence of the John Birch Society; position of women in politics.
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