facilities so i question where are we with entrepreneurial capitalism that's my next question for barbara hackman franklin president and c.e.o. barbara franklin enterprises stories told this book a matter of simple justice the untold story of barbara hackman franklin and if you could women she's also an expert on corporate governance and served on boards of directors for fourteen public companies so this is your expertise as well and i know you said you are an ardent supporter of american entrepreneurial counselors and my question to you. after seeing to big to fail banks get bailed out get big or have be propped up by zero percent interest rates and liquidity facilities from the fed and so many examples of corporate welfare for other corporations to where are we but entrepreneurial capitalism in europe you can i talk to a lot of people who are small investors small business owners who say this is not a level playing field this is not fair well you know our our culture has in it entrepreneurship the people who came here and settled this country initially and who come now are risk takers we have to have th

major booster of advancing women in the federal work force, the main focus of the book is barbara hackman franklin the tasks -- 1971 she was given the task of recruiting women for high level jobs. i want to know your secret to youth you have not aged a day >> how very nice thank you. >> thanks for coming in today. >> my pleasure. >> i don't know a lot of people know what is now history,. >> right. >> and i dare say i think a lot of us take it foregranted we are just in these position we are in but you were on the forefront of all this. what was it like in 1970? for women in government and high ranking position. >> well, things really were different and hopefully, when younger people read this book they will realize how different things were. you know society back then, you don't remember this either but it was not of one mind about what the proper role for women would be and what we were really wanting was equal opportunity, of course the women's movement was making a lot of noise which was very helpful i think but equal opportunity not to be stereo typed if a woman wanted to work outside the home

the administration's initiatives was led by barbara frank -- harbor hackman franklin who was hired in 1971 to enlist female candidates to fill high-level positions. this is about an hour and a half. >> good evening. i am the -- of the united states and it's a pleasure to welcome you to the william g. mcgowan theater and a special welcome to our c-span viewers. tonight we have a distinguished panel who will take a look at a little discussed topic, the role of women in the administration of president richard m. nixon. our panelists will discuss how the tenure of the nixon appointed cabinet would shape later generations of cabinets as assistance, geysers and heads of agencies and departments. we want to extend their thanks to barbara hackman franklin and the richard nixon foundation for their roles in making tonight's program possible. ron walker who is chairman of the foundation is with us tonight. where are you, ron? a special thanks to him for making this evening possible also. ron was in the nixon white house and he was the very first director of the white house office of presidentia