[1] Considered an example of staunchly anti-communist women who emerged as leaders during the Goldwater era of the Republican Party in the mid-1960s,[2] she died of cancer before the decade was over, without ever winning office.
[4][5] She attended Strayer Business College at Washington D.C., and the Foreign Service School of the U.S. Department of State.
In the 1964 Republican presidential primary in New Hampshire, she was an early and prominent supporter of Barry Goldwater,[21] who in 1962 had criticized Powell's failure to appoint her to the Senate.
[23] Instead, relatively more New Hampshire Republican primary voters wrote in the name of a non-candidate who had not even entered the state—former Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who was then the U.S.
From the outset Loeb backed retired Air Force General Harrison Thyng, who was a strong supporter of continuing U.S. offensives in the Vietnam War.
[25] Distancing herself from Loeb's editorials and Thyng's position on the war, Bridges urged a peaceful solution to the conflict, to be found by a blue-ribbon committee of Americans.
Mrs. Bridges maintained a low profile in the politics surrounding the 1968 New Hampshire presidential primary, won by Richard M. Nixon.