VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: PATRICIA GOLDMAN

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Patricia Goldman

“We are able to make changes in policy and in people’s lives.”

Policy maker and changer. Advocate for the ERA and women’s health issues. U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Writer for the National Journal. The House Wednesday Group. National Transportation Safety Board. National Women’s Political Caucus, head of the Republican Task Force. The Wish List (Women in the Senate and House). Co-founder of the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance.

Interviewed by Judy Waxman, March 2021

Members of the Wednesday Group (l. to r.) California Representative Peter McCloskey, Virginia Representative Caldwell Butler, Pr

Photo 1. Pat Goldman, head of the Republican Women’s Task Force, 1975. Photo 2. Members of the Wednesday Group (l. to r.) California Representative Peter McCloskey, Virginia Representative Caldwell Butler, Congressman Joel M. Pritchard, Minnesota Representative Bill Frenzel and Wednesday Group Executive Director Pat Goldman.

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More About Pat:

Judy Waxman has a candid conversation over Zoom with Pat Goldman, Alice Tetelman and Betsy Griffith about the early days of the National Women’s Political Caucus, May 2021
Select articles
- Chautauqua conversations: For Goldman, a life of politics, service and Chautauqua summers, The Chautauquan Daily August 21, 2013
- Los Angeles Times interview with Pat Goldman, January 7, 1996
Pat Goldman, President of The Wish List on C-SPAN, September 25, 1996
Archives
- National Women’s Political Caucus Records, 1970-2006; Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
- “Republican National Convention (9)” of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Pat Goldman cited on pages 13-15
Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance website