Anne L. Armstrong

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Anne Armstrong
John O. Marsh
Personal details
Born(1927-12-27)December 27, 1927
Houston, Texas, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
SpouseTobin Armstrong
Children5
EducationVassar College (BA)

Anne Legendre Armstrong (December 27, 1927 – July 30, 2008) was a United States

United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, serving in those capacities under the Ford, Nixon, and Carter administrations. She was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
in 1987.

Biography

She was born in

Christmas Bombing of North Vietnam.[1] Nixon named her as Counselor to the President on December 19, 1972, which she held from January 19, 1973 to November 1974 under President Ford.[2]

During her tenure as Counselor, Armstrong founded the first Office of Women's Programs in the White House,[3] predecessor to the current White House Council on Women and Girls. Fluent in Spanish, she was Nixon's liaison to Hispanic Americans and was a member of a Cabinet committee on opportunities for Spanish-speaking people.[3]

In 1973, a young Karl Rove, then on his way to becoming the chairman of the College Republicans, suggested in a memorandum to Armstrong that the Republican Party show nonpolitical films (such as John Wayne movies and Reefer Madness) at College Republican clubs as part of a strategy to raise support for the party among students and for fundraising.[citation needed]

From 1976 to 1977, Armstrong was the first woman

Robert Dole of Kansas was instead chosen by Ford. In 1978, Armstrong supported George W. Bush in his successful primary challenge to Jim Reese in their congressional runoff primary in Texas's 19th congressional district.[4]
Bush, however, lost the general election that fall to then-Democrat Kent Hance.[citation needed]

In 1987, Armstrong was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan. In 1989, she received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[5] She received an honorary Doctor of Laws from St. Mary's University in 1978.

In addition to her public life, Armstrong served on the boards of many U.S. corporations, including

General Motors. She served on the board of non profit organizations such as Center for Strategic and International Studies and was a member of the Founding Council of the Rothermere American Institute, and the University of Oxford.[citation needed
]

Death

Armstrong died of cancer at a hospice in

Houston in 2008. She is buried at Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Texas
.

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-62779-083-3
    .
  2. ^ "Desert Sun, December 19, 1972 — California Digital Newspaper Collection". cdnc.ucr.edu. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
  3. ^
    ISSN 0190-8286
    . Retrieved 2016-10-22.
  4. ^ "Mayor Jim Reese of Odessa and the Republican Party in the Permian Basin", The West Texas Historical Association Year Book, Vol. LXXXVII (October 2011), p. 138
  5. American Academy of Achievement
    .

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Party political offices
Preceded by Keynote Speaker of the Republican National Convention
1972 		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by
Robert Finch
 Counselor to the President
1973–1974
Served alongside: Dean Burch, Kenneth Rush 		Succeeded by
Succeeded by
John O. Marsh
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom

1976–1977 		Succeeded by
Kingman Brewster
Government offices
Vacant
Title last held by
Leo Cherne
Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board

1981–1990 		Succeeded by
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