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...gravest error the Republicans may have made was not resting their case with Barbara Bush. Instead they also spotlighted Marilyn Quayle as the symbol of their baby-boomer professional woman who gave it all up for the man she loves. Those worried about Hillary Clinton being a co-President (although in 11 years as First Lady in Arkansas, no one accused her of being co-Governor) should take a look at Mrs. Quayle's activities. She was her husband's campaign manager and has an office near his in the Old Executive Office Building, where she spends much...
...husband's long illness. And it is impossible to imagine Presidents from George Washington to George Bush not listening to the counsel of the one person in the world upon whom they can count to have their joint interests at heart. Bush is a better President for having Barbara Bush at his side. So why shouldn't Dan Quayle get the benefit of Marilyn Quayle's intellect and instincts? And why shouldn't Bill Clinton have the benefit of Hillary Clinton's? And why then shouldn't the country get the same benefit? Perhaps it is time to admit that...
Experts estimate that about 5,000 U.S. couples have adopted five or more children. Barbara Tremitiere, a consultant on child-welfare issues (and the mother of 15 children, 12 of them adopted), knows of several families that have taken in more than 30 kids. Rutgers University psychology professor David Brodzinsky observes in these parents "a tendency toward missionary zeal -- a reaching out, in a spiritual or religious sense, to those more needy." Many of these parents are children of the '60s who adopted Asian kids instead of the most wanted Gerber babies. "They were committed to causes," says Tremitiere...
...Convention could have been dreamed up by Oral Roberts -- or Bob. Folksy singers abounded in Houston, supporting party ideology with hymns to red blood, white bread and blue-tinted hair. There was country star Lee Greenwood, who has been married five times, appearing as the warm-up act for Barbara Bush on Family Values Night. If he had burst into Times Are Changin' Back, the cognoscenti's sniggers would have been drowned by cheers of the faithful...
Administration: Helga Halaki, Barbara Milberg...