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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Nixon is opposed to liberalized abortion laws, and Senator McGovern is somewhat less than an advocate. Whom, then, should a committed feminist support? When challenged at a women's caucus in Manhattan for backing McGovern, Committed Feminist Gloria Steinem drew laughter and applause by answering: "If McGovern were a woman and he got pregnant, he would make an honest decision whether or not to have an abortion. If Nixon got pregnant, he'd have an abortion but he'd go around afterward telling everybody that he was still a virgin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 16, 1972 | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

Rosemary Ruether of Howard University, and Alice Hageman, who has worked with the Campus Ministry Women's Caucus, will be the Lentz Lecturers on the Ministry of Women...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: New Divinity School Courses Study Women and the Church | 10/14/1972 | See Source »

...said President Bok met with Senior Tutors, House Masters and the Faculty Council, and that he himself conferred with a group of Faculty from what was once called the liberal caucus...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Dan Steiner: New Man With the Bullhorn | 10/13/1972 | See Source »

...this time, Walter Fauntroy had also become very active in the McGovern campaign and in fact, the whole attitude of the Congressional Black Caucus was changing. Soon, they too decided to get on the McGovern bandwagon. After negotiating terms similar to those won by Julian Bond. Black Caucus leaders held a press conference to announce their support of McGovern. When Walter Fauntroy, the District of Columbia's nonvoting representative, delivered one of the speeches placing McGovern in nomination at Miami, it seemed that a mutually satisfactory alliance had at last been forged between black political leaders and the McGovern campaign...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: A Troubled Alliance Endures | 10/11/1972 | See Source »

...fraud." Congressman Bill Clay said of McGovern. Clay, a former chairman of the Black Congressional Caucus and one of the most respected black politicians in the country, and Stokes, the current chairman of the Caucus, charged that McGovern was reneging on all of his promises and wouldn't even given them an audience to discuss their dissatisfactions...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: A Troubled Alliance Endures | 10/11/1972 | See Source »

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