Tuesday, June 17, 2014

¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Linda Chavez!



AKA Linda Lou Chavez.

Born June 17, 1947.

She is a conservative Hispanic woman who was the highest-ranking woman in President Ronald Reagan's White House. She also became the first Latina ever nominated to the U.S. Cabinet, when President George W. Bush nominated her as his Secretary of Labor. She later had to withdraw from consideration when it was discovered that she had employed an illegal alien.

Her father was descended from Spanish immigrants to New Mexico. Her mother was of English and Irish ancestry.

She also wrote a book in 1991 called Out of the Barrio: Towards a New Politics of Assimilation, which appears to have been read more by her ideological opponents than by anyone else.

She was also an executive director of the organization U.S. English back in the 1980s but quit after the release of the notorious Tanton memo.

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