White House Capsule Honors Female Workers

WASHINGTON — Artifacts documenting the lives of working women were sealed Friday in a 25-year time capsule at the White House.

First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton told a mostly female audience that in 25 years the President, “and her husband,” will open it.

The opportunity to make that remark came as hundreds of working women gathered with President Clinton and his wife in a tent pitched on the South Lawn of the White House to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Labor Department’s Women’s Bureau.

The contents of the capsule included the English textbook that Lonnie Leuben used in her 11th-grade English class 30 years ago when one of her students was Bill Clinton.