what is i want to give you our limited edition clare boothe luce mug with her special saying clare boothece. this is so for you. that is beautiful. it says courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. there you go. you're a courageous lady. thank you. and i, to give you my book, which is about raising conservative of daughters. and it's first and only book because took me 30 years to write it. all of my years here at the center and i just wish you many wonderful daughters. thank you. i know. i hope i get to make good use of it. thank you again. thank you all for coming. and please join us for lunch and book signing outsi so guess i will start with a short excerpt from an early part of my book is from chapter three. so biting the hand is a memoir and it's

it chastised us for being her to campus and said that we, as college republicans and clare boothe luce knowingly endorsed a harmful conversation and impeded the process of the university's commitment to providing resources to sexual assault survivors. the op-ed continued, it's necessary and value to promote the free expression of a plurality of views, but this back and forth whether or not certain sexual assault statistics are valid is not the conversation that students should be having. students should engage in a dialog that focuses on establishing a safe space for survivors while at the same time tackling the root causes of sdpul assault. i don't know if you caught the double think in that statement, but they start with free expression is important and then immediately say that some conversations are not worth having. a member of the administration actually got involved in the silencing and cancellation attempts not long after they reached out to me and clare boothe luce and demanded that they take down a video of the event, it was a public event, open to the public, and they said y

and that was because of event that i hosted as chair of the college republicans along the clare bootheer for conservative women, bringing dr. christina hoff summers to campus. she was coming to talk feminism, but somehow the campus left decided that this was all about her denying sexual assault survivors and being a rape almost. immediately upon announcing the event, there were protests planned. there were spaces erected for her appearance. georgetown's assault peer education program sent an email out to its members warning that an extremist antifa feminist speaker that dismisses, denies survivors of sexual assault was coming to campus. and they said that the event a trigger warning me and my friends were subject basically an entire week and a half of just horrible vitriol and abuse. we were brought in to the student activities administrator at one point because she concerned for our safety, but also because some students had complained to the administration that we were making an unsafe environment for them, i don't know how that works. but luckily for us, the event mostly went off wi

i'm michelle easton, president of the clare boothe center for conservative women. and thanks to c-span booktv for covering this excellent author and important new book. and thanks to all of you for coming today. this year marks the clare boothe lew center's 30th anniversary of preparing and promoting conservative women leaders. our primary focus is on college age and some high school girls and you see the photos on the wall teaching them to be better leaders for the country in the years ahead and inspiring them in policy and work ethic. with women like those we sponsor at this event, this loose program, the conservative women's network is one of our favorites. it began over 23 years ago for the purpose of promoting the best conservative of women leaders and their interest tremendously important messages. also cw and brings together women from virginia, maryland and d.c., sometimes further to get to know and network with like minded women and to learn from conservative women leaders. conservative women leaders like today's speaker, mary ever said. ten years ago, in

i'm michelle easton, president of the clare boothe center for conservative women. and thanks to c-span booktv for covering this excellent author and important new book. and thanks to all of you for coming today. this year marks the clare boothe lew center's 30th anniversary of preparing and promoting conservative women leaders. our primary focus is on college age and some high school girls and you see the photos on the wall teaching them to be better leaders for the country in the years ahead and inspiring them in policy and work ethic. with women like those we sponsor at this event, this loose program, the conservative women's network is one of our favorites. it began over 23 years ago for the purpose of promoting the best conservative of women leaders and their interest tremendously important messages. also cw and brings together women from virginia, maryland and d.c., sometimes further to get to know and network with like minded women and to learn from conservative women leaders. conservative women leaders like today's speaker, mary ever said. ten years ago, in

i'm michelle easton, president of the clare boothe center for conservative women. and thanks to c-span booktv for covering this excellent author and important new book. and thanks to all of you for coming today. this year marks the clare boothe lew center's 30th anniversary of preparing and promoting conservative

dead horse cartoon i became a number one target is because of the event i posted along with the clare boothcenter. she was talking about feminism but the campus decided this was all about denying sexual assault survivors being a rate apologist meon announcing the there were protests planned, save phases erected for appearance, georgetown's sexual assault program sends an email to his members warning and extremist antifeminist speaker that denies survivors of sexual assault were coming to campus and said this event needed a trigger warning my friends and i were subject to only half of online victory all of use. we were into the subjectivity administrator because she was concerned for our safety but also students and we were making an unsafe environment for them. i know how that works out but luckily we had security there but there was a strict reading of the georgetown free-speech code but that anyone who shouts out to be removed so they said in a room with their posters that said nasty things about us and doctor sommers and save most of their fire or after the in fact the area which is the

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i'm michelle easton, president of the clare boothe center for conservative women. and thanks to c-span booktv for covering this excellent author and important