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August 1, 2008

GOP stalwart, ex-ambassador Anne Armstrong dies (AP)

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In a Sunday August 20, 1972 file photo, Anne Armstrong tries the microphone in Miami Beach's Convention Hall as she prepares to make a keynote speech at a GOP convention, the first woman ever to do so. Armstrong, a longtime powerful Republican who served as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain in the Ford administration, died Wednesday, July 30, 2008, her office said. She was 80. (AP Photo, File)AP - Anne Armstrong, a powerful Republican in the 1970s and ’80s who advocated a greater role for women and served as U.S. ambassador to Britain in the Ford administration, died Wednesday. She was 80.


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