Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Gridiron Club" in English language version.
Members voted 24 to 17 to permit women as guests but not as members. In 1972, invitation went out to Mrs. Nixon, members of Congress, Katharine Graham, and Coretta Scott King.
The 108th renewal of the Gridiron's white-tie dinner was particularly eventful: Helen Thomas, White House correspondent for United Press International, presided over the gathering as the club's first woman president.
...the women in Washington turned their sights on another institution, the Gridiron Club, once described by Harrison Salisbury of The New York Times as "an assembly of troglodytes." Nonetheless, it held a dinner each year, then as now, spoofing national leaders and attended by many of those leaders. But women were shut out.
...the women in Washington turned their sights on another institution, the Gridiron Club, once described by Harrison Salisbury of The New York Times as "an assembly of troglodytes." Nonetheless, it held a dinner each year, then as now, spoofing national leaders and attended by many of those leaders. But women were shut out.
