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A Woman of Firsts: Margaret Heckler, Political Trailblazer

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A Top Five Pick on The Harvard Kennedy School Women and Public Policy Program’s 2025 Gender Equity Summer Reading List

The extraordinary story of Margaret O’Shaughnessy Heckler offers a rare view into the behind-the-scenes world of American politics from the 1960s through the 1980s. Her career spanned five presidencies: Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan.

The daughter of Irish immigrants, Margaret Heckler represented the American dream. She served as a congresswoman, a presidential cab...