Barbara Franklin talked about her work as a staff assistant to President Nixon from 1971 to 1973 leading the effort to recruit women for high-level government jobs and her relationship with President Nixon as late as 1992, when she was Commerce Secretary under President George Herbert Walker Bush.
This is a portion of the interview conducted by Timothy Naftali on June 26, 2007, at the Watergate in Washington, D.C., for the Nixon Presidential Materials Staff at the National Archives and Records Administration, soon to be part of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.