As Dr. Samuel Johnson once observed, 'Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.'
At long last we are going to give the dedicated women of our Armed Forces the equal treatment and the equal opportunity that they should hav...
There is no reason why we should not someday have a female Chief of Staff or even a female Commander in Chief.
This is a free country. This is a democratic country.
We have come here this morning to strike another blow for women's rights.
We gave women the vote and somehow the country survived.
Our Armed Forces literally could not operate effectively or efficiently without our women.
But even then they were not assured equal opportunity.
Progress is being made and I believe these programs will help us overcome the dreaded killer diseases--heart, cancer and stroke.
With the signing of this bill this morning, we are going to end that inequity.
So here today in the East Room in the White House we will end the last vestige of discrimination--I hope--in our Armed Forces.