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...Althena had an advantage over us." Sissy Farenthold. Chair of the Woman's National Political Caucus (NWPC), sucked the convention members into her words like a pagan priestess mesmerizing a pack of willing iconoclasts. "She sprang full grown from the forehead of Zeus. Our movement is not ordained from on high and we hardly sprang full-grown. Our growth will come with painstaking effort...
...shudder of agreement rippled down the caucus from Alabama to Wyoming. "Foreign Policy is vital to out survival and women must intrude on those decisions. That is our failure-that we do not have women senators to address us or women judges whose opinions we can read." Farenthold swooped down in a final damnation. "And we have no presidential candidate...
...presidential hopefuls were jittering around Boston City Hall, making nice to the caucus delegates and observers who had laid out fifteen dollars to drink a little wine and listen to the candidates make their bids. Fred Harris, a Democrat from Oklahoma, stood in a corner greeting strangers like long-lost friends...
...Mr.Haris, what do you think of Sissy Farenthold's statement this afternoon at the convention that the National Women's Political Caucus has no presidential candidate...
...jobs bill was back in the House for a vote to override the veto-the most important test of strength yet between Ford and the congressional Democrats. "If we Democrats can't win on this crucial vote," House Majority Leader Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill told his party caucus, "then we can't win on any vote." To Ford, the issue was whether the Democrats would open an inflationary floodgate: more and more spending for more and more jobs...