**FILE**In a Sunday August 20, 1972 file photo, Anne Armstrong tries the microphone in Miami Beach's Convention Hall as she prepares to make a keynote speech at a GOP convention, the first woman ever to do so. Armstrong, a longtime powerful Republican who served as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain in the Ford administration, died Wednesday, July 30, 2008, her office said. She was 80. (AP Photo, File)