Kimberly Heckler

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"A Woman of Firsts: Margaret Heckler, Political Trailblazer" is the story of the first triple crown woman in American politics to serve as a Congresswoman, Cabinet Secretary (HHS) and Ambassador (Ireland). Rejected at birth, her Irish immigrant parents gave her away during the Great Depression in Queens, New York. The story is about her stunning rise into the world of politics where she would become one of only 10 women in Congress and the only newly elected woman to Congress in 1966. She would go on to write the law, The Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974, that would finally give women credit, credit cards in their own names for the first time in American history. She would also co-sponsor Title IX and the ERA.
As HHS Secretary, she made AIDS the number 1 health issue in America in 1983 and write from scratch the first federalize Hospice program, available to all Americans under Medicare!
She is a woman for the Ages.