GOP stalwart, ex-ambassador Anne Armstrong dies (AP)

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)AP - Anne Armstrong, a longtime powerful Republican who served as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain in the Ford administration, died Wednesday, her office said. She was 80.

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