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...years in the making. Senior Correspondent John Steele, who has attended no fewer than 14 conventions, and Simmons Fentress, veteran of four, used their vast expertise to report and analyze the differences between this and past political conclaves. Correspondent Bonnie Angelo kept in touch with the women's caucus. Hays Gorey, who had covered Hubert Humphrey all through his 1968 presidential campaign, was with the Senator during the credentials fight on the floor. Dean Fischer, assigned months ago to follow McGovern's fortunes, was the only reporter in the candidate's room when the Illinois delegation cast...
...National Women's Political Caucus had worked hard to get women elected as delegates under the liberalized McGovern-Fraser Commission rules. At the convention, they turned up everywhere in positions of power -on the Credentials Committee, the Rules Committee, the Platform Committee. They came in all sizes, ages and accents. They ranged from Katherine Harjo, 17, a Seminole Indian from Oklahoma to Jessie Sanders, 79, a political pro from South Dakota. The convention's cochairman, Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, a black running for Congress from California, wielded the gavel with muscle, tact and a winning smile. Delegates were careful...
...delegates were sufficiently on guard not to begin a talk to women with such traditional lines as "You lovely ladies" or "What feminine pulchritude." Even the slightest slip of the tongue by the best-meaning male brought swift retribution. At one of the sessions of the Women's Caucus, McGovern was introduced by Liz Carpenter with the compliment: "We are all here because of him." Trying to make a joke, McGovern replied: "The credit should go to Adam." Seeing nothing funny, the women hissed until he pleaded: "Can I recover by saying Adam and Eve?" Shouted an alternate delegate...
Unsisterly. Not all the women delegates were so faithful to Eve. Some wore conventional street-length dresses, studiously ignored the militants, deferred ostentatiously to men and even attended a fashion show. At one caucus, Minnesota Delegate Yvette Oldendorf, smartly attired in a pantsuit, rose to protest: "I find it an extreme insult to suggest that women delegates should be attending style shows while the men attend to the business of the convention," prompting the remark: "My God, it sounded like she was saying, They are slaughtering Christians down on 34th Street.'" Militants took action against women they considered...
...from the McGovern forces, who were determined to keep the sensitive issue out of the campaign. The women were already smarting from McGovern's failure to support on the floor their challenge to the South Carolina delegation, which they said lacked a sufficient number of women. In the caucus, McGovern had said that he "fully and unequivocally" backed the women on South Carolina. Betty Friedan complained: "We were cynically misused." Now they were outraged, and in the case of Gloria Steinem, tearful with rage. Calling the McGovern operatives "bastards," she had to be led from the floor...