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Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of the House of Representatives and the first in a recent line of high-profile political leaders...who are women. 

The California congresswoman is the first woman to sit in the speaker's chair - and her ascension to the job came just before the historic Presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton - and the unlikely Vice Presidential bid of Sarah Palin. 

Pelosi is touring the US - drumming up support for Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, raising money for congressional Democrats, as she hopes to widen the party's control of the house, and talking about her book: "Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters." 

Friday, she came to the Hartford Club to speak to the World Affairs Council of Connecticut - and to kick off their Global Forum on women's issues.  We'll talk about the landmark year for women in politics.

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