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Board Members
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
President of The Polling Co, Inc.
Frank Donatelli
Frank Donatelli
Secretary-Treasurer of the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute
Michelle Easton
Michelle Easton
President of the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute
Clare Luce
Clare Luce
Ursula Meese
Ursula Meese
Kate Obenshain
Kate Obenshain
Former Virginia GOP Chairman and a Fox News Commentator
Darla Partridge
Darla Partridge
Marji Ross
Marji Ross
President of Regnery Publishing

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</div><div>Editor’s note: We at HUMAN EVENTS are pleased to bring you this week a series of profiles from the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute.  These are profiles of influential and prominent conservative women who have made a tremendous impact for the better on this great country.</div><div>
</div><div>In the 1980s, too many conservative groups looked like all-male organizations. Although the conservative movement was once stereotyped as a “group of little old ladies in tennis shoes,” the left exploited an opportunity by nominating an obscure woman, Geraldine Ferraro, for Vice-President and by clamoring for “women’s studies programs” in our schools.</div><div>
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</div><div>One high-level Reagan Administration official, Michelle Easton, was confident conservative women could play a more crucial, perhaps decisive, role in public policy. She also believed that most American women were inherently conservative.</div><div>
</div><div>While she completed her years of service in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administrations, Easton decided to launch a conservative women’s group—the Clare Boothe Luce Public Policy Institute—that would balance the ideological scales.</div><div>
</div><div>Conservatives, including Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Nikki Haley, Condoleezza Rice, Marsha Blackburn, and Kristi Noem, personify the modern day conservative movement that Michelle Easton championed at the Luce Institute. The Institute eschewed taxpayer subsidies and quick gimmicks to get press. Instead the Easton-led group highlighted a new core of national leaders through Washington policy luncheons, campus lectures, seminars and even its famous annual calendar—“Great American Conservative Women”—featuring the country’s leading conservative women.</div><div>
</div><div>Easton also recruited top flight business executives Marji Ross, Kellyanne Conway, and Barb Kenney; veteran Washington hands Ursula Meese, Kate Obenshain, and Frank Donatelli; and beyond-the-beltway leaders Darla Partridge and Clare Luce to serve on the Clare Boothe Luce Board of Directors. Easton enlisted help from other top conservatives, including Becky Norton Dunlop, Bridget Wagner, Cleta Mitchell, Star Parker, S.E. Cupp and Kathryn Lopez, to create a reputation of hosting solid, conservative events.</div><div>
</div><div>Recently, David Horowitz honored Michelle Easton with the Freedom Center’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her public policy work. In addition to her accomplishments with the Luce Institute, Easton is an attorney, and mother of three boys, was the principal caregiver for her ailing parents and serves on several boards of other conservative organizations. Easton also served as the president of the Virginia Board of Education, where she authored and championed Gov. Allen’s acclaimed “Standards of Learning (SOLs).” Easton’s career changed the face of the conservative movement.</div></div>=</div><div>=
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Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute > CBLPI Issues > Energy & Environment > 8 Principles to Guide Environmental Policies

8 Principles to Guide Environmental Policies

Posted on: June 1, 2013

By Becky Norton Dunlop

Principles matter. Without sound principles to guide decisionmaking, good public policy can easily be derailed by pure emotional appeal, manipulative advocacy, and greedy con artists. The following eight time-tested principles are essential to development good environmental policies for the nation.

This principle divides the left and the right. There are people across the country and around the world who believe that people are a blights on the planet, and the planet would be better off if people would just get off. History and experience prove otherwise.

It is human intellect, accumulated knowledge and creativity that provide the means to make responsible decisions in the conservation and stewardship of the environment and all natural resources. Ultimately, a policy cannot be good for the environment if it is bad for the people who live under – and are affected by – that policy.

The statists, the environmental radicals, the liberals think the Earth is static and diminishing and that human impact harms it. Conservatives think the opposite: that renewable natural resources are regenerated through growth, reproduction, and other naturally occurring processes that cleanse, cycle, or otherwise create them anew.

Wise management is an important term in this principle. We know that if we walk through a forest today and go back to the same spot in a year, the forest will be different even if no other human treads on it in the interim. Resources constantly change, and humans can improve the quality and condition of those resources.

Even the youngest person understands this truth: When you own something, you tend to take care of it and improve it in quality and condition. There are many examples of free-market environmental improvements because someone developed a better design. For example, the goal of car manufacturers isn’t to build cars that use the most gasoline; it is to build cars that satisfy people, which is why there are far more Priuses on the road today than Hummers.

The annual Index of Economic Freedom confirms this principle. The report consistently finds that the nations with the greatest private property protections and the most free markets are also the ones with the best environments.

Too many foolishly seem to measure environmental benefits in terms of the number of people who attend environmental conferences.

Science provides a means of rationally assessing real – rather than theoretical – environmental impacts. Human health and safety, economic well-being, and liberty should be the primary criteria by which we assess environmental measures and outcomes.

Consider Coca-Cola cans. the original cans were made of steel that couldn’t be dented. Over time, manufacturers replaced steel with ever-thinning aluminum to the point that they can be crushed by the human hand today.

Trees were once milled strictly for their lumber, with bark and sawdust discarded in rapidly filling landfills. Over time, entrepreneurs found valuable uses for bark (chip wood for landscaping) and sawdust (mixed with plastic market bags to make plastic lumber for picnic tables, piers, docks, etc.), turning waste into new marketable products and reducing waste headed for landfills.

In the 1990s, a Washington-directed command-and-control, one-size-fits-all environmental policy shifted into high gear. It treated all states and regions the same.  Yet states and regions are different and require different solutions. Virginia 0 with its seashores, farmland, rivers, mountains and valleys – is very different from Texas, which is different from Idaho.

Logic and science dictate that each state, and even regions within states, will have different environmental challenges and require unique solutions. One size-fits-all policies control people, but they are an ineffective way to genuinely improve the environment.

Good, demonstrated science is one element to guide  policy decisions, but it should never dictate public policy decisions. Cost-benefit analyses and impacts should be considered in policy decisions as well.

Beware, too, of fear mongering in the name of science. Years ago, actress Meryl Streep offered ‘testimony’ to Congress that was summed up this way: I don’t want Alar sprayed on applies because it will kill my babies. Although fear of Alar spread, demonstrated science confirmed that if an aspirin tablet-sized amount of Alar was put into an Olympic pool-size amount of water and the water sprayed on apples, it significantly improved the quality and condition of applies, with no harm whatsoever to any humans, including babies.

Increasingly, the most polluted spots on the Earth today are places that were ruled by the old Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was against pollution and, as a communist regime, it centrally controlled everything: manufacturing, inspecting, permitting, and certainly people.  Yet it’s central control, along with lack of human freedom and free-market incentives, resulted in the greatest pollution on earth.

Today, horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) of oil and natural gas on private U.S. lands are proving this principle. The increased production and use of these energy sources is largely credited in dramatically reducing carbon pollution in the U.S. in the past five years.

If followed, these eight principles would greatly aid the nation in making wise management decisions concerning the environment.

About the Author: Becky Norton Dunlop is Vice President – External Relations at the Heritage Foundation and the former Secretary of Natural Resources of the Commonwealth of Virginia. This paper was adapted from her presentation to the Conservative Women’s Network

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TCU Forum Discusses Concealed Firearms on Campus

Posted on: October 28, 2015

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Speakers and students gathered at a Texas Christian University forum on October 22 for an open debate on whether to allow concealed firearms on campus, reports The Texas Tribune:

    The session was hosted by TCU’s College Republicans as part of conservative women leaders group Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute’s Texas Women’s Summit and featured speakers state Sen. Konni Burton, R-Fort Worth, and sexual assault survivor Amanda Collins.

    “Guns are thought of as scary,” said Lydia Longoria, TCU College Republicans treasurer and a concealed handgun license holder. “It’s a tool women can use to protect themselves. I’ve learned what it means to own a gun, have a gun and the respect that comes with having it.”

    The event came as TCU is deciding whether to opt out of Senate Bill 11, the campus carry law passed this spring that requires public colleges and universities to allow people with handgun licenses to carry their weapons at school starting Aug. 1. The administration is soliciting feedback from the community until the end of the month, after which the school’s board of trustees is expected to make a decision.

Women comprise a majority on TCU’s campus, and TCU had eleven reported sexual assaults on campus last year. Longoria, an organizer of the forum, invited CBLPI speaker Amanda Collins to share her experience on a gun-free campus.

    Eight years ago Thursday, Collins was sexually assaulted in a campus parking garage, she said. A graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno, she detailed her sexual assault at the hands of a gunman on her campus. Collins said had she had her gun — which she had left at home because the campus was a gun-free zone — she might have stopped her attacker and prevented future attacks.

    Collins said a college campus should not be seen as a place with easy targets nor a place where the Second Amendment is denied.

    “How does rendering me defenseless protect you?” Collins said she asks supporters of opting out of the campus carry law.

Many private college campuses in Texas are currently “weighing the decision of whether to opt out” of SB 11.

    Leaders from Trinity University in San Antonio, Austin College in Sherman and Paul Quinn College in Dallas said during the Texas Tribune Festival that their campuses likely will opt out next year. Rice University President David Leebron said discussion is still happening at his school.

    At TCU, students, faculty and staff governmental bodies have offered opinions, the university has held forums and debates and an email account for comments has been set up. Which way the campus will go is still unknown, a representative for the university said

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Looking for a calendar to keep track of your social commitments in 2009? Forget <a data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" href="http://www.blogdolcevita.com/post/395/pirelli-calendar-2009-mariacarla-boscono">Pirelli</a>

and its nudish, high fashion models photographed in Africa by Peter

Beard. Look no further than the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute’s <a data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" href="http://www.cblpi.org/calendar/">“Pretty in Mink” calendar</a>, celebrating “smart, conservative women role models” like Ann <a data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200607280001">“Total Fag”</a> Coulter and Michelle <a data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" href="http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Internment-Round-Up-Americas-Terror/dp/0895260514">“In Defense of Internment”</a> Malkin. </div>

These paragons of intelligence and good sense have been styled like

stars of a bygone era, “back when the big screen was a little more

glamorous, women were a little more feminine, the men a little more

charming — and the world a little less politically correct,” i.e. a <a data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" href="http://www.enduglyphotos.com/">Glamour Shots</a> mall outpost circa the late 80’s. In a word — awesome.
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Clare Boothe Luce (March 10, 1903<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-In_Search_of_Clare_Boothe_Luce-1">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-2">[2]</a> – October 9, 1987) was an American author, politician, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Ambassador" class="mw-redirect" title="US Ambassador">US Ambassador</a>

and notable public conservative figure. She was the first American

woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad. A versatile

author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Women_%28play%29" title="The Women (play)">The Women</a>,

which had an all-female cast. Her writings extended from drama and

screen scenarios to fiction, journalism, and war reportage. She was the

wife of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Luce" title="Henry Luce">Henry Luce</a>, publisher of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%28magazine%29" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%28magazine%29" title="Life (magazine)">Life</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_%28magazine%29" title="Fortune (magazine)">Fortune</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Illustrated" title="Sports Illustrated">Sports Illustrated</a>.

Politically, Luce was a leading conservative in later life and was well known for her <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-communism" title="Anti-communism">anti-communism</a>. In her youth, she briefly aligned herself with the liberalism of President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Roosevelt" class="mw-redirect" title="Franklin Roosevelt">Franklin Roosevelt</a> as a protege of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Baruch" title="Bernard Baruch">Bernard Baruch</a>, but later became an outspoken critic of Roosevelt.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-3">[3]</a> Although she was a strong supporter of the Anglo-American alliance in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, she remained outspokenly critical of British colonialism in India.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-4">[4]</a>

Known as a charismatic and forceful public speaker, especially after

her conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1946, she campaigned for every

Republican presidential candidate from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Willkie" title="Wendell Willkie">Wendell Willkie</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>.

<h2>Contents</h2>

</div></div><div id="toc" class="toc"><ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#Early_life">1 Early life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#Marriage_to_Henry_Luce">2 Marriage to Henry Luce</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#Writing_career">3 Writing career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#Political_career">4 Political career</a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#House_of_Representatives">4.1 House of Representatives</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#Republican_National_Conventions">4.2 Republican National Conventions</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#Ambassador_to_Italy">4.3 Ambassador to Italy</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#Ambassador_to_Brazil">4.4 Ambassador to Brazil</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#Political_life_after_office">4.5 Political life after office</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom">4.6 Presidential Medal of Freedom</a></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#Death">5 Death</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#Legacy">6 Legacy</a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#Feminism">6.1 Feminism</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#Clare_Boothe_Luce_Program">6.2 Clare Boothe Luce Program</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#Conservatism">6.3 Conservatism</a></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#Publications">7 Publications</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#See_also">8 See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#Notes">9 Notes</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#References">10 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#External_links">11 External links</a></li></ul>

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<h2>Early life</h2>Luce was born Ann Clare Boothe

in New York City on March 10, 1903, the second child of Anna Clara

Schneider (also known as Ann Snyder Murphy, Ann Boothe, and Ann Clare

Austin) and William Franklin Boothe (also known as "John J. Murphy" and

"Jord Murfe").<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-5">[5]</a> Her parents were not married and would separate in 1912. Her father, a sophisticated man and a brilliant violinist,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-6">[6]</a>

instilled in his daughter a love of literature, if not of music, but

had trouble holding a job and spent years as a travelling salesman.

Parts of young Clare's childhood were spent in Memphis and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville,Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville, Tennessee</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago,Illinois" class="mw-redirect" title="Chicago, Illinois">Chicago, Illinois</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_City,_New_Jersey" title="Union City, New Jersey">Union City, New Jersey</a> as well as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-7">[7]</a> Clare Boothe had an elder brother, David Franklin Boothe.

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Clare Boothe as a young socialite in the 1920s</div>

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She attended the cathedral schools in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_City,New_York" title="Garden City, New York">Garden City</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrytown,New_York" title="Tarrytown, New York">Tarrytown, New York</a>,

graduating first in her class in 1919 at 16. [Source: Clare Boothe

Luce, Author and Diplomat, by Joseph Lyons, Chelsey House Publisher,

1989, p 26]. Her ambitious mother's initial plan for her was to become

an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actress" class="mw-redirect" title="Actress">actress</a>. Clare understudied <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Pickford" title="Mary Pickford">Mary Pickford</a> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> at age 10, and had a small part in Thomas Edison's 1915 movie, The Heart of a Waif.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-8">[8]</a> After a tour of Europe with her mother and stepfather, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.Albert_E.Austin" class="mw-redirect" title="Dr. Albert E. Austin">Dr. Albert E. Austin</a>, whom Ann Boothe married in 1919, she became interested in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage" title="Women's suffrage">women's suffrage</a> movement, and she was hired by Alva Belmont to work for the National Woman's Party in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_Falls,New_York" title="Seneca Falls, New York">Seneca Falls, New York</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-9">[9]</a>

Highly intelligent, ambitious, and blessed with a deceptively fragile

blonde beauty, the young Clare soon abandoned ideological feminism to

pursue other interests. She wed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tuttle_Brokaw" title="George Tuttle Brokaw">George Tuttle Brokaw</a>, millionaire heir to a New York clothing fortune, on August 10, 1923, at the age of 20. They had one daughter, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Clare_Brokaw" title="Ann Clare Brokaw">Ann Clare Brokaw</a> (August 22, 1924 – January 11, 1944). According to Boothe, Brokaw was a hopeless <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcoholic">alcoholic</a>, and the marriage ended in divorce in 1929.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-10">[10]</a>

On November 23, 1935, she married <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Robinson_Luce" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Robinson Luce">Henry Robinson Luce</a>, the publisher of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%28magazine%29" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%28magazine%29" title="Life (magazine)">Life</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_%28magazine%29" title="Fortune (magazine)">Fortune</a>.

She thereafter called herself Clare Boothe Luce, a

frequently-misspelled name that was often confused with that of her

exact contemporary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Luce" title="Claire Luce">Claire Luce</a>, a stage and film actress. As a professional writer, Luce continued to use her maiden name.

On January 11, 1944, her daughter and only child, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Clare_Brokaw" title="Ann Clare Brokaw">Ann Clare Brokaw</a>, a senior at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a>, was killed in an automobile accident. As a result of the tragedy, Luce explored <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychotherapy" title="Psychotherapy">psychotherapy</a> and religion. After grief counseling with radio priest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_Sheen" class="mw-redirect" title="Fulton Sheen">Fulton Sheen</a>, she joined the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Church">Roman Catholic Church</a> in 1946.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-11">[11]</a> She became an ardent essayist and lecturer in celebration of her faith, and she was ultimately honored by being named a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dame_of_Malta" class="mw-redirect" title="Dame of Malta">Dame of Malta</a>.

<h2>Marriage to Henry Luce</h2>The

marriage between Clare and Henry was difficult. Henry was by any

standard extremely successful, but his physical awkwardness, lack of

humor, and newsman's discomfort with any conversation that was not

strictly factual put him in awe of his beautiful wife's social poise,

wit, and fertile imagination.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-12">[12]</a> Clare's years as managing editor of Vanity Fair left her with an avid interest in journalism (she suggested the idea of Life magazine to her husband before it was developed internally).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-13">[13]</a> Henry himself was generous in encouraging her to write for Life, but the question of how much coverage she should be accorded in Time, as she grew more famous, was always a careful balancing act for Henry since he did not want to be accused of nepotism.

In the early 1960s, both Luces were friends of philosopher, author, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD" class="mw-redirect" title="LSD">LSD</a> advocate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Heard" title="Gerald Heard">Gerald Heard</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-14">[14]</a>

They tried LSD one time under his careful supervision. Although taking

LSD never turned into a habit for either of the Luces, a friend (and

biographer of Clare), Wilfred Sheed, wrote that Clare made use of it at

least several times.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-15">[15]</a>

The Luces stayed together until Henry's death from a heart attack in

As one of the great "power couples" in American history, they were

welded by their mutual interests and complementary, if contrasting,

characters. They treated each other with unfailing respect in public,

never more so than when he willingly acted as his wife's consort during

her years as Ambassador to Italy. She was never able to convert him to

Catholicism (he was the son of a Presbyterian missionary) but he did not

question the sincerity of her faith, often attended Mass with her, and

defended her when she was criticized by his fellow Protestants.

In the early years of her widowhood, she retired to the luxurious

beach house that she and her husband had planned in Honolulu, but

boredom with life in what she called "this fur-lined rut"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-16">[16]</a> brought her back to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a> for increasingly long periods. She made her final home there in 1983.
<h3>Political life after office</h3>After <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a>

led a revolution in Cuba in 1959, Luce and her husband began to sponsor

anti-communust groups. This support included funding Cuban exiles in

commando speedboat raids against Cuba in the early 1960s.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-40">[40]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-41">[41]</a> Luce's continuing anticommunism as well as her advocacy of conservatism led her to support Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater" title="Barry Goldwater">Barry Goldwater</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a> as the Republican candidate for president in 1964. She also considered but rejected a candidacy for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a> from New York on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_New_York_State" title="Conservative Party of New York State">Conservative party</a> ticket. That same year, which also saw the political emergence of her future friend <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>, marked the voluntary end of Henry Luce's tenure as editor-in-chief of Time.

The Luces retired together, establishing a winter home in Arizona and

planning a final move to Hawaii. Her husband, Henry, died in 1967 before

that dream could be realized, but she went ahead with construction of a

luxurious beach house in Honolulu, and, for some years, she led an

active life in Hawaii high society.

In 1973, President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> named he to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Foreign_Intelligence_Advisory_Board" class="mw-redirect" title="President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board">President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board</a> (PFIAB). She remained on the board until President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Jimmy Carter</a> succeeded President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford" title="Gerald Ford">Gerald Ford</a>

in 1977. By then, she had put down roots in Washington, D.C. that would

become permanent in her last years. In 1979, she was the first female

to be awarded the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvanus_Thayer_Award" title="Sylvanus Thayer Award">Sylvanus Thayer Award</a> by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Military_Academy" title="United States Military Academy">United States Military Academy</a> at West Point.

President Reagan reappointed Luce to PFIAB. She served on the board until 1983.

<h3>Presidential Medal of Freedom</h3>President Reagan awarded her the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-CBLPI-42">[42]</a> in 1983. She was the first female member of Congress to receive this award.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-Homan2011-43">[43]</a>

Upon presenting her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Reagan said this of Luce:

A novelist, playwright, politician, diplomat, and advisor to

Presidents, Clare Boothe Luce has served and enriched her country in

many fields. Her brilliance of mind, gracious warmth and great fortitude

have propelled her to exceptional heights of accomplishment. As a

Congresswoman, Ambassador, and Member of the President's Foreign

Intelligence Advisory Board, Clare Boothe Luce has been a persistent and

effective advocate of freedom, both at home and abroad. She has earned

the respect of people from all over the world, and the love of her

fellow Americans.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-UTexas1983-44">[44]</a>

</blockquote>

<h2>Death</h2>Luce died of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_cancer" class="mw-redirect" title="Brain cancer">brain cancer</a> on October 9, 1987, at age 84, at her <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_complex" title="Watergate complex">Watergate</a> apartment in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a> She is buried at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mepkin_Abbey" title="Mepkin Abbey">Mepkin Abbey</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a>, a plantation that she and Henry Luce had once owned and given to a community of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trappist" class="mw-redirect" title="Trappist">Trappist</a> monks. She lies in a grave adjoining those of her mother, her daughter, and her husband.

<h2>Legacy</h2><h3>Feminism</h3>Revered

in her later years as a heroine of the feminist movement, Luce had

mixed feelings about the role of women in society. As a Congresswoman in

1943, she was invited to co-sponsor a submission of the Equal Rights

Amendment, offered by Representative Louis Ludlow of Indiana, but

claimed that the invitation got lost in her mail.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-45">[45]</a>

Clare never ceased to advise women to marry and provide supportive

homes for their husbands. (During her ambassadorial years, at a dinner

in Luxembourg attended by many European dignitaries, Luce was heard

declaiming that all women wanted from men was "babies and security.")<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-46">[46]</a>

Yet, her own professional career as a successful editor, writer,

playwright, reporter, legislator, and diplomat remarkably showed how a

woman of humble origins and no college education could raise herself to

an escalating series of public heights. Luce bequeathed a large part of

her personal fortune of some $50 million to an academic program, the

Clare Boothe Luce Program, designed to encourage the entry of women into

technological fields traditionally dominated by men. Because of her

determination and unwillingness to let her gender stand in the way of

her personal and professional achievements, Clare is considered to be an

influential role model by many women. Starting from humble beginnings,

Clare never allowed her initial poverty or her male counterparts' lack

of respect to keep her from achieving as much if not more than many of

the men surrounding her.[

<h3>Clare Boothe Luce Program</h3>Since

1989, the Clare Boothe Luce Program (CBL) has become a significant

source of private funding support for women in science, mathematics, and

engineering. All awards must be used exclusively in the United States

(not applicable for travel or study abroad). Student recipients must be

U.S. citizens and faculty recipients must be citizens or permanent

residents. Thus far, the program has supported more than 1,500 women....
<h3>Conservatism</h3>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce_Policy_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute">Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute</a> was founded in 1993 by Michelle Easton.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-47">[47]</a> The non-profit <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_tank" title="Think tank">think tank</a>

seeks to advance American women through conservative ideas and espouses

much the same philosophy as Clare Boothe Luce, both in terms of foreign

policy and domestic policy.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-48">[48]</a>

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce_Award" title="Clare Boothe Luce Award">Clare Boothe Luce Award</a>, established in 1991 in memory of Luce, is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Heritage Foundation">Heritage Foundation</a>'s highest award for distinguished contributions to the conservative movement. Prominent recipients include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Buckley_Jr." title="William F. Buckley Jr.">William F. Buckley Jr.</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-Rankin-49">[49]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-BBC-50">[50]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-Buckley-51">[51]</a>

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https://www.thenation.com/article/gops-long-war-against-women-and-sex/

Valenti 2012

Aspirins

and short skirts and contraception, oh my! The last few weeks have seen

a slew of Republican gaffes concerning women’s sexuality. From Rick

Santorum’s billionaire supporter Foster Friess’s waxing nostalgic about

the good old days when women put aspirin "between their knees” in lieu

of contraception to an online furor over whether the young conservative

women at CPAC dressed too provocatively—the GOP has a major woman

problem on their hands. 

Their fear of sex—of women’s sexuality in particular—has become a

major media talking point, and a source of outrage among American women.

But what I don’t understand is why anyone is surprised. Republicans

have long based their agenda for women in a deep-rooted disdain for all

things female. We’ve been down this road many, many times before.

When a picture of <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/republican-hearing-contraception-no-women-allowed">Congressman Darrell Issa’s all-male panel</a>

on birth control (the make-up of which prompted several Democratic

women to walk out of the hearing) hit the Internet and mainstream

media—I couldn’t help but be reminded of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Signing_the_Partial-Birth_Abortion_ban.jpg">similar picture</a>

of George W. Bush signing the “partial birth” abortion ban, surrounded

by a group of smiling clapping men. All men. (Santorum was one of them.)

<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/02/virginia_ultrasound_law_women_who_want_an_abortion_will_be_forcibly_penetrated_for_no_medical_reason.html">Dahlia Lithwick reported last week in Slate</a>

on a law that’s poised to pass in Virginia that would make it legal to

penetrate abortion-seeking women against their wills by requiring a

medically unnecessary transvaginal ultrasound—a procedure that would

count as rape under state law. Delegate David Englin told Lithwick that

one Republican lawmaker told him that the invasive ultrasound wasn’t an

issue because women seeking abortions had already made the decision to

be “vaginally penetrated when they got pregnant.” Apparently once women

have been penetrated, all other future penetrations should be no

problem, consent notwithstanding.

If this attitude sounds radical, consider that up until 2008, it

was the basis for Maryland rape law. If a woman initially agreed to sex,

but later withdrew consent, any sex that followed wasn’t rape. The

justification was based on archaic legislation that said after the

initial “de-flowering” of a woman, nothing could be considered rape

because “the damage was done,” she was no longer a virgin and couldn’t

be “re-flowered.”

The focus on birth control is not new either. Conservatives and

Republican appointees successfully held up emergency contraception for

over-the-counter status for three years in the FDA, despite a

recommendation from an independent joint advisory committee to the

agency to make the drug available. Dr. W. David Hager—appointed by then

President Bush to the FDA’s Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health

Drugs—told the New York Times about why he voted against the

drug’s approval, noting, “What we heard today was frequently about

individuals who did not want to take responsibility for their actions

and wanted a medication to relieve those consequences.” (Hager also

penned a book in which he argued that prayer could cure PMS—quite the

expert on women’s health!)

It also came out that in an internal memo FDA medical official Janet

Woodcock argued against making the contraceptive available over the

counter for fear that it would cause “extreme promiscuous behaviors such

as the medication taking on an ‘urban legend’ status that would lead

adolescents to form sex-based cults centered around the use of Plan B.”

(The same fear-based rhetoric over young women becoming promiscuous was

used when conservatives tried to hold up Gardasil, the HPV vaccine that

prevents cervical cancer.)

But let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that this is just a

problem of men attacking women’s rights. Conservative women’s rights

groups, always eager for a patriarchal pat on the head, have long thrown

other women under the bus under the guise of protecting them from their

own wanton sexuality. The Independent Women’s Forum—who oppose the

Violence Against Women Act, Title IX and who don’t believe pay inequity

exists—started a campaign years ago to get the award-winning play The Vagina Monologues

banned from college campuses, arguing that it’s pornographic and

reduces women to their body parts. (Specifically, the one they’d rather

not think about.) The Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, another

right-wing women’s organization, launched a campaign and contest in 2008

to “Bringing Back the Dowry and Hope Chest.” The winner received a

“cedar-lined hope chest filled with $1000 worth of dowry items” as well

as $500 toward her future wedding. Retro-chic!

Given this long history of paternalism and efforts to rollback

women’s rights—I think the calls that the GOP is launching a “war on

women” are right on, but years late.

Perhaps today, with the Internet moving information faster than

ever before, Republican and conservative sexism doesn’t go as easily

unnoticed (just ask the folks at Komen). Perhaps the influx of young

women and feminists into self-directed and social media activism has

changed the course of the national debate. Or maybe women are just fed

up with yet another legislator dictating how they should run their lives

and use their bodies.

Whatever the reason, we need to ensure that Republicans are held

accountable and don’t get to brush these comments and actions off as

mistakes or misunderstandings. Because they’re not simple gaffes,

they’re a crystal clear window into the future that the GOP wants for

women
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