Anne Armstrong
| Anne Armstrong | |
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| Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board | |
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In office October 20, 1981 – July 17, 1990 |
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| President |
Ronald Reagan George H. W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Leo Cherne (1977) |
| Succeeded by | John Tower |
| United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom | |
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In office March 17, 1976 – March 3, 1977 |
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| President |
Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | Elliot Richardson |
| Succeeded by | Kingman Brewster |
| Counselor to the President | |
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In office January 19, 1973 – December 18, 1974 Served with Dean Burch, Kenneth Rush |
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| President |
Richard Nixon Gerald Ford |
| Preceded by | Robert Finch |
| Succeeded by |
Robert T. Hartmann John O. Marsh |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
December 27, 1927 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Died | July 30, 2008 (aged 80) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Tobin Armstrong |
| Children | 5 |
| Education | Vassar College (BA) |
Anne Legendre Armstrong (December 27, 1927 – July 30, 2008) was a United States diplomat and politician, the first woman to serve as Counselor to the President and as 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.
She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was graduated from Vassar College in 1949. In 1950, she married Tobin Armstrong and moved to Kenedy County, Texas. From 1966 to 1968, she was the vice chairman of the Texas Republican Party. From 1971 to 1973 she was Co-chairman of the Republican National Committee, and she was the keynote speaker at the 1972 Republican National Convention. (She was the first woman from either major party to keynote at a national convention). Nixon named her as Counselor to the President on 19 December 1972, which she held from January 19, 1973 to November 1974 under President Ford. During her tenure as Counselor, Armstrong founded the first Office of Women's Programs in the White House, 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. 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.
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