A woman sits at a desk in Washington in 1953, having already run a branch of the United States military that did not exist five years earlier, about to become the first person to hold an entirely new cabinet position that did not exist either.
Oveta Culp Hobby grew up in Killeen, Texas, and was already an accomplished lawyer and newspaper executive by the time World War II broke out. When the Army needed someone to organize and lead the newly created Women's Army Corps, she was appointed its first director, overseeing the training and deployment of tens of thousands of women into roles the military had never before allowed them to fill. She ran the WAC with the same seriousness she brought to everything else, insisting the women under her command be trained and treated as real soldiers doing real work, not a wartime experiment to be quietly ended once the fighting stopped.
After the war, she returned to Texas publishing before President Eisenhower appointed her the first Secretary of ...

NOT WHAT THEY IMAGINED
A lot of people who voted for Trump never fully understood what they were asking for. 😬
👉 They wanted the deep state dismantled.
👉 They wanted the entrenched power structure broken.
👉 They wanted America pulled back from the edge.
But they wanted it clean. 😒
👉 No disruption.
👉 No uncomfortable alliances.
👉 No pressure that felt messy.
👉 No moves that didn’t make perfect sense on the first viewing.
They wanted demolition but were not expecting the turbelance. 🤯
👉 Now the real work is underway.
Institutions are being forced to answer. Systems that operated in the dark for decades are under pressure.
👉 The process is not polite.
👉 It is not tidy.
👉 It does not always look the way people pictured it in their heads.
And some of the same voices that demanded the wrecking ball are now complaining that the building is shaking. 🫨🫨🫨
That is the difference between supporting a slogan and supporting a mission. 👍
👉 You cannot demand ...