Story highlights Ann Ruben meet Hillary Clinton once

Ruben also sent Clinton a T-shirt when Clinton's first granddaughter was born

(CNN) Twenty-one years ago, Ann Moliver Ruben designed a T-shirt with a simple empowering message: "Someday a woman will be PRESIDENT!"

A Walmart store in Florida quickly pulled it from its shelves, saying the shirt was "offensive" to some shoppers and apparently went against the chain's "family values."

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This week, Hillary Clinton became the first woman nominated for president by a major political party. That means a woman, after 44 male presidents, finally stands a chance of winning the White House.

And a news clipping of Ruben's "controversial" shirt is doing the online rounds as an example of not just how far America has come, but also of how its notions were so antiquated just two short decades ago.

"We're in a new era now," a giddy Ruben told CNN on Wednesday. People, she said, aren't so threatened by the thought of having women in charge any more.

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