History was made when President Bush addressed Speaker Pelosi as he delivered his State of the Union speech this week.
I think those 2 words got him more applause than the rest of the speech. We definitely lag the world when it comes to this metric. Here were some early and prominent office holders in other parts of the world
1960 Sri Lanka S. Bandaranaike
1966 India Indira Gandhi
1968 Israel Golda Meir
1974 Argentina Eva Peron
1979 UK Margaret Thatcher
1986 Philippines Corazon Aquino
1988 Pakistan Benazir Bhutto
2005 Germany Angela Merkel
Of course, when I travel I hear all the time how sexist, racist the US is. My response is along the lines of what I wrote here. We do a lot of things right. We just need to do a few more right. Madam Speaker is a good start.
