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...another day, the President surrounded himself with some of the most outspoken women in Congress, among them New York Representatives Bella Abzug and Shirley Chisholm, as he signed a proclamation making Aug. 26, the 54th anniversary of women's suffrage, Women's Equality Day. He also urged that the remaining states ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. Quipped one of the women at the gathering: "It looks like a chorus line." Responded Ford: "You girls are the Rockettes." It is a measure of both the times and Ford's style that he got away with...
...quickly made known his presidential aspirations. Because of his liberal voting record, he and the G.O.P. soon soured on each other, a disenchantment he documented in a cathartic diary, O Congress. Last year he jumped to the Democratic Party ("I'm on the same wave length with Bella Abzug"). If he survives the turncoat stigma, as now appears likely, Riegle could be a contender for the Senate...
...former editor of the Republican weekly newsletter Monday. The transition from party polemicist to political columnist has not been easy for Lofton, who seems happier attacking personalities than discussing issues. His columns, carried by some 60 papers, occasionally amount to sophomoric japes. In one piece he calls Bella Abzug a "congressthing" to ridicule the feminist cause. Lofton has written no columns about impeachment...
...liberated men for Today's Health magazine. Her choices: the late Senator Robert Kennedy (he listened to women), Economist John Kenneth Galbraith (he changed his mind about women), Crusader Ralph Nader (he is interested in issues regardless of their progenitors' gender), Congresswoman Bella's husband Martin Abzug (he is supportive), Athlete Rafer Johnson (he is gentle). There were also the farm workers' Cesar Chavez (for his belief in nonviolence), Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme (he said if there is hope for peace, it lies in depolarizing sex roles), Franklin Thomas (president of Brooklyn's Bedford...
...spite of all these apparent infractions, Congressmen and Senators have been very careful about impeachment talk. Only a few, like Bella Abzug (D-NY) and John E. Moss (D-Calif.) have openly discussed the possibility of impeachment proceedings. Most are waiting for public opinion to swing against the President and in favor of impeachment before they will participate in such talk. And the Democrats are saying that any impeachment proceedings will have to start with the Republicans...