America Has Finally Put A Woman At The Top Of The Ticket

PHILADELPHIA In 1968, Hillary Clinton , known at the time as Hillary Rodham, was taking in the excitement of the Republican National Convention in Miami. The young Republican had jumped at the chance to volunteer for Nelson Rockefellers last-minute effort to take the nomination from Richard Nixon and attend her first political convention.

The Republican convention was my first inside look at big-time politics, and I found the week unreal and unsettling, Clinton wrote in her 2003 memoir.

The 20-year-old Rodham probably never anticipated that 48 years later, shed be at another political convention this time standing on the stage at the Democratic National Convention , making history as the first woman to ever receive a major partys presidential nomination.

Tonight, weve reached a milestone in our nations march toward a more perfect union: the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for president, Clinton said Thursday night. Standing here as my mothers daughter, and my daughters mother, Im so happy this day has come. Im happy for grandmothers and little girls and everyone in between. Im happy for boys and men, too because when any barrier falls in America, it clears the way for everyone.

After all, when there are no ceilings, the skys the limit, she added. So lets keep going, until every one of the 161 million women and girls across America has the opportunity she deserves to have. But even more important than the history we make tonight, is the history we will write together in the years ahead

While more than 200 women have pursued the presidency since 1872 when Victoria Woodhull became the first woman to run for the highest office in the land no one has come as close as Clinton .

Clinton presented the 2016 election as a moment of reckoning for America, a time when powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart.

We have to decide whether we all will work together so we all can rise together, she said. Our countrys motto is e pluribus unum: out of many, we are one. Will we stay true to that motto? Well, we heard Donald Trump s answer last week at his convention. He wants to divide us from the rest of the world, and from each other.

Dont believe anyone who says, I alone can fix it, she added. Yes, those were actually Donald Trumps words in Cleveland. And they should set off alarm bells for all of us.

Thursday night was an event that many women have been waiting for their whole lives, and there were plenty of tears both in the arena and from afar for the big, historic moment when Clinton came out to greet her daughter, Chelsea, onstage.

Watching my 93 year old grandmother, a lifetime feminist and activist, cry at @HillaryClinton speaking. pic.twitter.com/qCr7yPOcG5

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Watching my 93 year old grandmother, a lifetime feminist and activist, cry at @HillaryClinton speaking. pic.twitter.com/qCr7yPOcG5
Alana Mooch (@alamooch) July 29, 2016

\"When there are no ceilings the sky is the limit.\"
So glad my granddaughters are watching Hillary Clinton tonight! pic.twitter.com/w4U0T1moiB

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"When there are no ceilings the sky is the limit."
So glad my granddaughters are watching Hillary Clinton tonight! pic.twitter.com/w4U0T1moiB
Janice Hahn (@Rep_JaniceHahn) July 29, 2016

Suzanne Miller, 66, from Washington, D.C., said her 92-year-old mother in central Pennsylvania was a lifelong Republican. But this spring, she changed her party registration so that she could vote for Clinton.

Shes thrilled, at 92, to be able to vote for a woman, Miller said. She never, ever thought shed see this day. She is so excited and so thrilled that she changed her party after all those years.

This is looking at the fruits of my labor for 30 years, and feeling very proud, said Ellen Malcolm, the founder of EMILYs List, which works to elect pro-choice Democratic women and has become one of the most powerful political action committees since its start in 1985 .

Its been a long journey for Clinton. She first came to national attention as a student at Wellesley College in 1969, when her peers selected her to deliver the schools first-ever student commencement speech. The student body president spoke for her generation, saying that although they werent yet in positions of power and leadership, they did have that indispensable element of criticizing and constructive protest .