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Hi, podcast listeners. It's Anne here with this week's to the best of our knowledge extra.

So the Democratic National Convention has been going on this week, and everyone's anticipating the main event, Hillary Clinton's speech accepting her party's nomination.

But there's a different speech I want to talk about today.

It's the speech Hillary gave a long time ago.

It's the commencement address she gave in 1969 when she graduated from Wellsley College. She was just 21 years old. And the full audio of that speech has only just come to light. So we're going to hear the full speech, but I wanted to put it in some context first. So I called Rebecca Traster. She's been covering women and politics from a feminist perspective for more than a decade.

She's a writer at large for New York Magazine.

And she has been at the Democratic Convention all week where it has been.

Unbelievably hot.

It's unrelentingly hot.

It's oppressively hot.

It's monster hot. It's equatorially hot. I don't even know if that's the

word. Well, it's certainly been a very dramatic convention so far. Yes. Yes. It has been.

So thank you for bearing with me. I really want to talk about this speech and then try to put it in some

context. I know you've heard

it before, but it's new to me. It's such a remarkable document. There is the blueprint for Hillary

Rodham Clinton's future in that speech that she gave in 1969. And it's interesting because the

speech itself is pretty wackadoo in a lot of ways. Well, of course, she was only 21 years old and a

senior graduating from college. I know you've read this speech hundreds of times, but the full

audio has only been available for a month or so. What was it like for you to hear it for the first time,

to hear her voice? Oh, it was so startling. I played it. I saw that the audio

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