Props of the Day
Posted by Sindicator on January 15, 2009
Thank you Elizabeth Dole.
Nominated Secretary of Transportation in 1983 by President Ronald Regan, Dole was the first woman in American history to hold a cabinet position and as the position directs the U.S. Coast Guard she also became the first woman ever in command of a branch of the U.S. Armed Services.
She was embraced by the conservative Regan administration despite her support of the Equal Rights Amendment; a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which would have guaranteed equality under the law to all Americans regardless of sex, which Reagan opposed.
Dole drove the installation of the third brake light on vehicles and airbags for passenger safety.
