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Did TV Help Make Us Ready for Hillary?

GLASS CEILINGS

How the rise of fictional female presidents on TV matched with the rise of the reality of a Clinton presidency—and sometimes hurt the cause as much as it helped it.

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The year was 1985 and, for the first time, there was a woman in the Oval Office.

It was Patty Duke, the first actress to play a fictional female president in a U.S.

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