Anne Legendre Armstrong (December 27, 1927 – July 30, 2008) was a United States diplomat and politician.
[2] Armstrong was born on December 27, 1927 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and graduated from Vassar College in 1949.
[5] In a Christmas dinner toast at the White House on Dec. 16, 1972, she "in one breath" praised "'Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace'" and Nixon as "the man who has done the most for peace in our history"; at the time, Nixon had given orders for the Christmas Bombing of North Vietnam.
Fluent in Spanish, she was Nixon's liaison to Hispanic Americans and was a member of a Cabinet committee on opportunities for Spanish-speaking people.
[9] At the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri, there was a draft effort to put Armstrong on the ticket as the vice presidential nominee with incumbent President Gerald Ford.