JUDY WOODRUFF:
Making her second run, Hillary Clinton is far from the first woman to set her eyes on the nation's highest office. She follows more than 200 American women in that quest.
Take the first, Victoria Woodhull. The 32-year-old launched her bid in 1870, almost half-a-century before women were allowed to vote. A spiritual-healer-turned-stock-broker, she was nominated by the Equal Rights Party, a group she organized. Woodhull faced opposition in the press, depicted as a devil for supporting the free love movement, by which she meant the freedom to marry, divorce and bear children.
Almost 100 years later came Maine's Margaret Chase Smith, the first woman to be elected into the Senate in her own right. At President John F. Kennedy's last press conference in 1963, he was asked about a potential Smith run.
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