Most important woman in last 100 years
'Lifetime Achievement' winner sold million books from her garage
Jerome R. Corsi
December 26, 2012


Michele Bachmann and Phyllis Schlafly

"NEW YORK –”She is my heroine and my example … She truly is the mother of the modern conservative movement … I think she is the most important woman in the United States in the last 100 years.”

That’s how Minnesota congresswoman and former GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann describes WND’s 2012 “Lifetime Achievement Award” recipient – Phyllis Schlafly.

A guiding light in the conservative movement for at least a half century, Schlafly’s life-long interest in politics was kindled almost accidentally – that is, if one believes in accidents. Schlafly unfolded her amazing story during an interview with WND.

“During World War II, I worked my way through college at Washington University in St. Louis by working on the night shift testing .30 and .50 caliber ammunition for St. Louis Ordnance Plant, one of the largest ammunition manufacturers in the country at that time,” she recalled in an interview with WND.

“Since I worked half the time 4 p.m. to midnight, and half the time midnight to 8 a.m., as a ballistics tester for an ammunition plant, I had to pick my class schedule to fit my work schedule. That’s what led me into a political science major, and I’ve been hooked ever since.”
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“I watched the convention steal the election from Taft and give it to Dwight Eisenhower,” she explained. “By the time we got to 1964, I had spoken to hundreds of organizations and been to all the conventions. We wanted grassroots Republicans to nominate the party’s presidential candidate. We didn’t want the kingmakers to do it.”

“In 1964, the kingmakers’ candidate was Nelson Rockefeller and our candidate was Barry Goldwater,” she noted.
This prompted Schlafly in 1964 to write the book that propelled her onto the national political scene, the self-published sensation titled “A Choice, Not an Echo.”

Grassroots conservatives in the Republican Party wanted a true choice, declared Schlafly, not an establishment party candidate who was just an echo of the Democrats’ candidate.
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In August 1967, Phyllis Schlafly created the volunteer Eagle organization that in 1975 was incorporated as Eagle Forum, and she began writing “The Phyllis Schlafly Report,” a monthly newsletter she has written without interruption every month until the present – a publication now in its 46th year.
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At an amazing 88 years of age, Phyllis Schlafly continues to carry the conservative torch. She travels, gives speeches, heads Eagle Forum, hosts a weekly radio talk show, holds national events for college students, authors books and writes a weekly syndicated column featured on WND."

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