Today, the House of will honor Pat Schroeder's life with a moment of silence. On this same day in 1992, the Congress passed a final Equal Rights Amendment resolution for the states to bring the ratification process.
Every woman currently serving in Congress owes a tremendous debt to Pat Schroeder. With her steadfast commitment and sharp wit, she proved women could be mothers, wives and congresswomen, and that they could lead on everything from family issues to national security.
All of this is vintage Pat and as someone who knew her from our days on The Great American Family Tour—an effort to build grassroots support for the Family Medical Leave Act by doing events in the presidential primary states after she decided not to run—in 1986, to earlier this month when we shared emails about our kids, I appreciate all of it.
As president of the American Association of Publishers, she delivered a fabulous plenary speech at the annual conference of NAFSA: Association of International Educator in my first year as CEO in 1998. And later, we served together on the board of the Communications Consortium Media Center strengthening messages and communications for policy change on the many aspects of the women’s rights and children’s agenda, in the US and globally. She was a star in so many ways. Thank you Pat.
Sometime in the 1980s they brought Rob Reiner, who was just starting to explore what would become his long-haul effort on behalf of children, to meet with me and my husband Jerry Dunfey. Huddled in a booth at the Last Hurrah Bar in the Parker House Hotel until the wee hours of the night, Pat’s brilliant strategy in full horsepower. She discerned how to dissect every dimension of turning progressive ideas into concrete actions with tangible positive effects.
Pat’s famous campaign slogan was, “She wins, we win.” I now understand a bit more what she meant. Thanks, Pat.Pat believed in public service. She was mission driven. Congress was not a career but a vehicle to fight for change for women and against the military industrial complex that was sapping national resources away.
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