and they remember leaders of the method including founder betty for dan. part of a larger conference held in washington, d.c.. it is about 90 minutes. ok then, we will start. i will be the moderator of the workshop today. nothing but stars on the panel here today.

and they remember leaders of the method including founder betty for dan. part of a larger conference held in washington, d.c.. it is about 90 minutes. ok then, we will start. i will be the moderator of the workshop today. nothing but stars on the panel here today. i feel very honored to even be here today and to be remembering the brave women and men who started the national organization for women and it was june of 1966 that they first got together. we don't have anyone living who is at that first meeting, at the , here is someton of the history. there was a very active women's bureau in the department of labor. in 1966, the democrats were in charge. president kennedy had been elected. were very active in the department of labor and women's bureau and was led by feminist. they persuaded the president to call a meeting of commissions on the status of women there. were i don't know if all states had them but the commissions on the status of women were kind of an organizing that was going on in the states, without a feminist movement to kind of pull everybod