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2 unusual facts about Margaret Heckler


Margaret Heckler

Heckler also lost the support of the National Organization for Women because she opposed federal funding for abortion.

From 1962 to 1966, Heckler served as Governor's councilor for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1964 and 1968 and was elected as a Republican to the 90th through the 97th Congresses (January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1983).


HIV vaccine

In 1984, after the confirmation of the etiological agent of AIDS by scientists at the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Pasteur Institute, the United States Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler declared that a vaccine would be available within two years.


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