PAMELA DIGBY CHURCHILL HAYWARD HARRIMAN - A WOMAN OF ACCOMPLISHMENT

Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, the woman who was called the Courtesan of the 20th Century, started out as an unsuccessful debutante with no real money compared to her peers, embarrassed by her clothing, yet in life set herself apart.

She went on to become a Democratic Party fund raiser.

The woman who was know to say little, to speak only when spoken to, or only to uphold her man, who only reflected the status of a man, started giving political advice.

The woman who lived more than half a century before she felt she had enough money controlled grants given by the W. Averell and Pamela C. Harriman Foundation and the Mary W. Harriman Foundation.  She gave out large sums of money every year to effect public policy.

The woman who lacked a good education but for a "finishing school," who was expected to marry well and retire to a predictable life in the English countryside, proved to have been someone who learned well from life. She had studied others well.

Influential in President William Jefferson Clinton becoming elected to the nation's highest office, she was rewarded when he named her United States Ambassador to France.

PAMELA HARRIMAN - LIFE OF THE PARTY - Washington Post


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