Oveta Culp Hobby by Debra L. Winegarten

Author:Debra L. Winegarten [Winegarten, Debra L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2014-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

Document showing signatures of President Eisenhower’s cabinet members. Courtesy of the Oveta Culp Hobby Memorial Library, Central Texas College, Killeen, Texas.

Commendation given to Oveta Culp Hobby for her service as secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Courtesy of the Hobby family.

Joan Braden continues:

Oveta took the blame, and the blame was headline news for days. And she took the cartoons that portrayed her as someone who was making up her face while babies died, as someone who had fumbled her job while she was fumbling in her purse for her lipstick, as someone who was, well, you know, a woman.

Imperturbably, she took it. Imperturbably, she sat on top of this vast bureaucracy, over some of which she had no line of authority, the surgeon general, for example, was a presidential appointee. She stuck to her maxim with a will of iron: “Never complain, never explain.”6

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