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...wouldn't see anything wrong with a woman President," Democrat Patsy Mink said after her 1964 election to Congress. Dr. Edgar Berman, Hubert Humphrey's personal physician and confidant, sees plenty wrong with a female Chief Executive. When he said so to the Congresswoman from Hawaii at a meeting of the Democratic Party's Committee on National Priorities, he set Washington abuzz and feminists afire...
...Berman argued that women are limited in their leadership potential by physiological and psychological factors, especially during the menstrual cycle and menopause. "Suppose," he speculated, "that we had a menopausal woman President who had to make the decision of the Bay of Pigs or the Russian contretemps with Cuba at the time?" She might be "subject to the curious mental aberrations of that age group...
...Bugaboo. Mrs. Mink, 42, turned in her fury to Humphrey, who, she assumed, had appointed Berman to the committee (actually, it was Fred Harris, former Democratic National Committee chairman). Demanding Herman's ouster, she called him a "bigot," guilty of "the basest sort of prejudice against women . . . His use of the menstrual cycle and menopause to ridicule women and to caricature all women as neurotic and emotionally unbalanced was as indefensible and astonishing as those who still believe, let alone dare state, that the Negro is physiologically inferior." Betty (The Feminine Mystique) Friedan, former president of the National Organization...
James S. Donnelly, attorney for the defense, said that "the probation sentences were unusually long for the offense." Peter H. Knapp, a teaching assistant, and John Levinson '73 received three year probations. Van R. McGec '71, Lowry Hemphill '72, and Ellen J. Messing '72 received two year probations. John Berman '70 received a one year probation...
...Berman, the manager, has very vivid memories about driving the truck which held the cellos, basses, and percussion. "That truck was a kind of wonder. I don't remember whether the back door worked or not, but if it did it was the only thing on the truck that did work. The tail-lights were broken, the speedometer was broken. The right front door wouldn't open and it wouldn't close but existed in a state somewhere in between so that the person sitting on the floor next to the door (there was only one seat, behind the steering...