2018 CALENDAR

Celebrating

Conservativ

Women

THROUGH25 YEARS THE PAST Dear Friends,

Twenty-five years ago, after having the honor of serving in the administration of President Ronald Reagan for eight years and then four years for President George H.W. Bush, I founded the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute. Our mission was simple: to inspire, mentor, and equip young women to become our future conservative leaders by drawing upon the insights, expertise, and experiences of great role models like the women leaders in this calendar. This is something the Left had been doing since the 1960’s with their liberal leaders like Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi. Thanks to thousands of patriotic Americans who have supported CBLPI, we have reached hundreds of thousands of young women with our groundbreaking and totally unique programs.

Millions of young women are struggling against leftism, feminism, and liberalism at their schools and colleges, in the media, and in the popular culture. They are hungry for the opportunity to hear our inspiring speakers, attend our lunches, seminars, and summits, and receive the specific unique training from successful conservative women that only the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute provides. In addition to conservative policy and solutions, we also stress values, the beauty of marriage and family, and strong and gracious leadership characteristics.

In celebration of our 25th Anniversary, the CBLPI 2018 Calendar celebrates some of the most accomplished women leaders in our previous calendars who, like the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, have dedicated their lives to promoting conservative ideas. 2018

We hope you enjoy this special edition of the Great American Conservative Women Calendar, and that you will be with us for the next 25 years and beyond. Sincerely,

President, Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute CBLPI staff CBLPI Board Contributors Michelle Easton, President Michelle Easton, President Photography Jeanne O’Connor, Vice President Frank Donatelli, Secretary/Treasurer Jensen Sutta, www.jensensutta.com Lil Tuttle, Policy Director Clare Luce Camille Hart, Events Director Ursula Meese KochFoto LLC, Cindy Rushing, Development Director Kate Obenshain-Keeler www.kochfoto.com Diane Sinclair, Accounting Manager Darla Partridge Graphic Design Sophie Linde, Administrative Assistant Sarah Rindlaub Tara French Johnson, Elizabeth Campbell, Program Officer Marji Ross www.mercy−design.com

Michelle Easton Frank Donatelli Clare Luce Ursula Meese Kate Obenshain-Keeler Darla Partridge Sarah Rindlaub Marji Ross 112 Elden Street • Suite P • Herndon, Virginia • 20170 • (888) 891- 4288 • cblpi.org . The 2018 Celebrating Conservative Women Calendar is a publication of the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, a tax-exempt organization which is organized and operates in accordance with section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Institute does not support, endorse, or oppose candidates for public office. JANUARY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

Phyllis Schlafly, who lived from 1924 to 2016, became a national figure after she rallied women to fight and defeat the feminist Equal Rights Amendment. A lawyer, columnist, talk radio host, and author of 27 books, Phyllis accepted CBLPI’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. A wife, mother, grandmother, and founder of Eagle Forum, Phyllis was considered the premier leader of the pro-family movement in America.

photo reprinted from the 2005 Great American Conservative Women Calendar January 2018 Sunday monday tuesday Wednesday thursday friday saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6

new year’s day

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Lee-Jackson Day

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martin luther king Jr. day 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

28 29 30 31 “I refuse the compliment that I think like a man. Thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.” - Clare Boothe Luce FEBRUARY BAY BUCHANAN Bay Buchanan served as President Reagan’s United States Treasurer— the youngest person to ever hold this position. She ran her brother Pat Buchanan’s 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns and served as national treasurer of President Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign. A wife, mother, and author, Bay was awarded CBLPI’s Woman of the Year Award in 2007. At CBLPI speeches before college audiences for 20 years, Bay tells our young women, “any one of you can become a leader” – and then tells them how.

photo reprinted from the 2015 Great American Conservative Woman Calendar February 2018 Sunday monday tuesday Wednesday thursday friday saturday 1 2 3 “If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes.’ They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.’” - Clare Boothe Luce National Freedom Day groundhog day 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Ronald Reagan’s Birthday (1911) 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

ash wednesday Lincoln’s Birthday (1809) Mardi Gras St. valentine’s day 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

Washington’s presidents’ day Birthday (1732) 25 26 27 28

Mardi Gras MARCH KELLYANNE CONWAY

Kellyanne Conway serves as the White House Counselor to President Donald J. Trump, which she accepted after serving as his campaign manager in his sprint to victory. She studied law, clerked for a judge, taught law, and co-authored the book, What Women Really Want. She founded and ran the highly regarded national polling company – the polling company, inc./ WomanTrend. A wife, mother, and entrepreneur, Kellyanne served eight years on the CBLPI Board of Directors and received CBLPI’s 2017 Woman of the Year Award.

photo from the 2017 CBLPI Woman of the Year Award Dinner March 2018 Sunday monday tuesday Wednesday thursday friday saturday 1 2 3 “They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.” - Clare Boothe Luce

4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Clare Boothe Luce’s birthday (1903)

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 daylight saving time begins (set clocks one hour ahead) st. patrick’s day

18 19 20 21 22 23 24

first day of spring

25 26 27 28 29 30 31 passover (begins at sundown)

Palm Sunday good friday APRIL KT Mc FARLAND

KT McFarland held national security positions in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations and is nominated to become President Trump’s Ambassador to Singapore. Her MIT PhD program concentration was nuclear weapons, China, and the Soviet Union, and she hosted a Fox News program on national defense. A wife and mother, KT received CBLPI’s 2015 Woman of the Year Award.

Photo reprinted from the 2014 Great American Conservative Women Calendar April 2018 Sunday monday tuesday Wednesday thursday friday saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

easter sunday Passover Ends 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

thomas jefferson’s birthday (1743) 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

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29 30 “In the final analysis there is no other solution to man’s progress but the day’s honest work, the day’s honest decision, and the day’s generous utterances, and the day’s good deed.” - Clare Boothe Luce MAY REPRESENTATIVE MICHELE BACHMANN

Michele Bachmann served four terms as a Congresswoman in the U.S. House of Representatives and founded the House Tea Party Caucus. She introduced the first bill to repeal Obamacare and ran for president in 2012. Michele received CBLPI’s 2010 Conservative Leadership Award. Michele is a wife, mother, and grandmother, and foster mother to twenty-three children.

Photo reprinted from the 2012 Great American Conservative Women Calendar may 2018 Sunday monday tuesday Wednesday thursday friday saturday 1 2 3 4 5 “Love is a verb.” - Clare Boothe Luce national day of prayer

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V-E Day (1945)

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mother’s day armed forces day

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Memorial day JUNE MICHELLE MALKIN Michelle Malkin is a multi-media success, a bestselling author as well as an incredible force in the blogosphere founding multiple successful blogs. She has been writing articles and books since she graduated from leftwing Oberlin College. A senior editor at Conservative Review, she also has an investigative program on Conservative Review TV (CRTV). A wife and mother, Michelle received CBLPI’s 2006 Woman of the Year Award and also our 2004 Conservative Leadership Award. photo reprinted from the 2008 Great American Conservative Women Calendar June 2018 Sunday monday tuesday Wednesday thursday friday saturday 1 2 "Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.” Clare Boothe Luce

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d-day (1944)

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U.S. Army birthday flag day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

father’s day first day of summer

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 JULY CLETA MITCHELL

Cleta Mitchell gained national acclaim exposing the unfair bias and harassment of the Tea Party and other conservative groups by the IRS. She is an attorney, mother, wife, and recipient of CBLPI’s 2013 Woman of the Year Award. Cleta’s signature message to our young women focuses on how in the professional world, “it is better to be respected than liked.” photo reprinted from the 2008 Great American Conservative Women Calendar July 2018 Sunday monday tuesday Wednesday thursday friday saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

independence day

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national korean war veterans armistice day

29 30 31 "The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.” - Clare Boothe Luce AUGUST STAR PARKER

Star Parker founded CURE – the Center for Urban Renewal and Education – after 7 years of first- hand experience in the grip of welfare dependency. She devotes her life to addressing issues of culture, race, and poverty from a Judeo-Christian perspective and has been speaking before CBLPI college audiences for 20 years. A mother and grandmother, Star is the recipient of CBLPI’s 2012 Conservative Leadership Award.

photo reprinted from the 2017 Great American Conservative Women Calendar August 2018 Sunday monday tuesday Wednesday thursday friday saturday

“Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make 1 2 3 4 you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.” - Clare Boothe Luce U.S. coast guard birthday

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purple heart day

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26 27 28 29 30 31 SEPTEMBER JEANE KIRKPATRICK

Jeane Kirkpatrick, who lived from 1926 to 2006, served as President Reagan’s United Nations Ambassador. A wife, mother, author, and political scientist, Jeane told CBLPI’s young women that, despite her impressive career, “having and raising babies is more interesting than making speeches at the United Nations. Believe me.”

photo from the 2005 Great American Conservative Women Calendar September 2018 Sunday monday tuesday Wednesday thursday friday saturday 1 “A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman’s eyes.” - Clare Boothe Luce

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V-J Day (1945) labor day

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patriot day Rosh Hashanah (begins at sundown) Rosh Hashanah Ends 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

Yom kippur (begins at sundown) pow/mia recognition day constitution day U.S. Air force birthday Yom kippur ends 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 First day of fall 30 OCTOBER NONIE DARWISH

Nonie Darwish is one of the most effective advocates for the rights of women oppressed by Islamic extremism. Born and raised as a Muslim in Egypt and Gaza, Nonie has first-hand experience living under Islam’s Sharia Law and is now a Christian. An author of multiple books and a brave CBLPI campus speaker, Nonie received CBLPI’s 2008 Woman of Exceptional Courage Award.

photo reprinted from the 2009 Great American Conservative Women Calendar October 2018 Sunday monday tuesday Wednesday thursday friday saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6

7 8 9 10 11 12 13 U.S. navy birthday

columbus day margaret thatcher’s birthday (1925) 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

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28 29 30 31 “Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.” - Clare Boothe Luce halloween NOVEMBER REPRESENTATIVE MARSHA BLACKBURN Congressman Marsha Blackburn, is a small business owner, author, wife, mother, grandmother, and a courageous Tennessee member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 2002. She was awarded CBLPI’s Woman of the Year in 2016. This solid conservative, worked her way through college selling books door to door and says, “you can call me Congressman; it’s not a gender specific job.”

photo reprinted from the 2016 Great American Conservative Woman Calendar November 2018 Sunday monday tuesday Wednesday thursday friday saturday 1 2 3 “Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.” - Clare Boothe Luce

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daylight saving world freedom day time ends (set clock

back one hour) Fall of the berlin U.S. Marine Corps election day wall (1989) Birthday 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

veterans day 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

Thanksgiving day

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giving tuesday www.cblpi.org DECEMBER CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Clare Boothe Luce, who lived from 1903 to 1987, is the namesake of the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute because she is such a tremendous role model for today’s future leaders. She had an extraordinarily successful career as a WWII journalist, playwright, editor and author, U.S. Congresswoman, and U.S. Ambassador to Italy. She was also a loving wife and mother and a woman of great faith. We are honored to have her granddaughter Clare Luce, serve on the CBLPI Board of Directors. photo a gift from Miss Sybil Cooper, Mrs. Luce’s last assistant december 2018 Sunday monday tuesday Wednesday thursday friday saturday 1 “There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.” - Clare Boothe Luce

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hanukkah Pearl Harbor (begins at sundown) Remembrance day 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

U.S. National Guard Hanukkah Ends birthday

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first day of winter

christmas eve 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

christmas day 30 New Year’s Eve 31 JANUARY CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS Christina Hoff Sommers came to Washington after working as a professor of philosophy at Clark University where she began her book, Who Stole Feminism? Her experience as a mother of two sons became part of her next book, The War Against Boys. In addition to writing books and articles she frequently appears in media, lectures, and debates. A popular CBLPI campus speaker, Leftists often create “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings” for delicate leftwing students when she lectures on campuses. photo reprinted from the 2008 Great American Conservative Woman Calendar JANUARY 2019 Sunday monday tuesday Wednesday thursday friday saturday

“No good deed goes 1 2 3 4 5 unpunished.”

- Clare Boothe Luce new year’s day

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lee-jackson day

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martin luther king Jr. day

27 28 29 30 31 are some of the speakers sketch of our Headquarters who have recently This includes the new Center for Belowspoken on college campuses, at our Conservative Women. The expansion regional summits, and at our mentoring provides a much needed place for more luncheons. They are popular among young women to receive activism training, our students and have been great role mentoring, and education on key policy models for many young conservative issues. Our work to develop and inspire the women. Read below to find out more on next generation of women in leadership has some of the issues they speak on. never been more important. Women hold pivotal national leadership roles and are vital to shaping conservative public policy for America.

Beverly Hallberg - Media and Public Speaking Marji Ross – Leadership and Career advice Cleta Mitchell – Leadership and IRS bias Mercedes Schlapp – Current Events Lisa Daftari – Foreign Policy and Journalism

Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch – WI – Grassroots Kate Obenshain-Keeler – Free Speech and Kellyanne Conway – Polling and Feminism S. E. Cupp – Media Bias Activism Feminism Ying Ma – Foreign Policy and The American Elaine Chao – Government Regulations and Catherine Englebrecht – Voter Fraud, True the Amanda Collins – Campus Carry, Second Dream Labor Vote Amendment

Gayle Trotter – Second Amendment Mollie Hemingway – Current Events Katherine Gorka – National Security and Islam Rachel Campos-Duffy – Pop-culture and Media Bias

Diana Furchtgott-Roth – Free Enterprise Stacey Dash – Bias in the Media and Katie Pavlich – Feminism and Second And finally, Margaret Thatcher and Michelle Hollywood Amendment Rights Easton in 2010

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