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Ford answered with a caustic quip about golfing and quickly took another question. According to desk editors at the AP, the New York executives were upset that the question was even asked. Ms. Lewine says her subsequent removal from the AP's White House staff may have dated back to that query.
The recordings are available for listening in the Vincent Voice Library, Michigan State University, and on the Web.
For example, she angered the White House press office — and even some of her editors — when she asked President Gerald Ford at a televised news conference whether he agreed with the administration's guidelines urging federal officials not to patronize segregated facilities. Ford said he did. Then Fran asked him why he played golf every week at Burning Tree Country Club, which still refused to admit women at that time.
She was also a member of Executive Women in Government and the Society of Professional Journalists. She was elected to the Washington Society of Professional Journalists Hall of Fame and to the Hunter College Hall of Fame, and was awarded the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism last October.
By the time we settled in 1983, women had increased to 22 percent of the domestic news staff, up from 7 percent in 1973, and those in foreign assignments had grown proportionately. All of the named plaintiffs had departed for other jobs, and I had been graciously congratulated in a New York courtroom by one of the AP's mega-priced attorneys for winning the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for The Miami Herald.
Frances Lewine ... was a member of the press contingent that covered Kennedy's world tour in March 1962.
Born in Rockaway and a graduate of Rockaway schools, she was part of an extended family that included her first cousin, Richard Feynman, who worked on the "Manhattan Project" that produced the first atomic bomb, and who later received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
We lived at that time in a big house; it was left by my grandfather to his children, and they didn't have much money aside from the house...One day my cousin Frances and I sat Joan down and said that there was a special program she should listen to. Then we ran upstairs and we started to broadcast...
