MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Many of you reacted to a line in last week's story by NPR's White House correspondent Tamara Keith. The story was about Hillary Clinton's history with privacy.</s>TAMARA KEITH, BYLINE: It was April 1994. First Lady Hillary Clinton wore pale pink and took questions for more than an hour about the...</s>DON GONYEA, HOST: Listeners wondered why our reporter even mentioned what Clinton was wearing.</s>MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Alexandra Shand from Chico, Calif., thought it was sexist. She wrote this. (Reading) When do we hear what the men were wearing? Seriously? It's 2015.</s>DON GONYEA, HOST: For Meg Gibson in Tallahassee, it prompted a lively conversation in the car with her two 12-year-old daughters about the way women are portrayed in the media.</s>MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: So we asked Tamara to explain why she mentioned Clinton's clothes.</s>TAMARA KEITH, BYLINE: The reason is pretty simple. This was known at the time and to this day as the pink press conference. Many people believe that Hillary Clinton wore this pastel sweater in an effort to soften her image.</s>DON GONYEA, HOST: And just so listeners know...</s>TAMARA KEITH, BYLINE: I'm currently wearing navy blue.</s>MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: And, she adds, pink nail polish.
NPR's Melissa Block and Don Gonyea share letters from listeners about the story last week on Hillary Clinton's history with privacy. Listeners wondered why NPR's Tamara Keith mentioned that Clinton's dress was pink when she spoke at a press conference in 1994.