To pick one line:

"Moreover, I will soon submit legislation to Congress calling for the creation of this nation's first solar bank, which will help us achieve the crucial goal of 20 percent of our energy coming from solar power by the year 2000."

If only.

I was heard at 45, when I wasn’t in my 20s. But nothing was done. And I left a job I loved because the solution offered was for me “not to be in meetings alone with that colleague”. As a woman of a certain age, I was absolutely clear why I left.

Like so many, I have stories of harassment and even violence at work. The difference of how 25 year old me vs 45 year old me dealt with it is about the cumulative effect of experience and finally feeling I was in a position of enough seniority I would be heard.