Word: caucuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...parties up and down the halls of the hotel" were quickly shattered. He found that "the seats are hard, you can't see and I haven't had any time for even a few beers. There hasn't been a single party, just sleep, a state caucus and then over to the convention hall. And I haven't found a single girl to take out since I've been here...
...solid analytical pieces by Knight specialists with such fascinating fluff as the revelation that Walter Cronkite lines up his navel with an arrow on his desk in order to center himself for CBS cameras. Knight showed enterprise as well: Washington Correspondent Vera Glaser cracked a secret women's caucus with a concealed tape recorder, and her colleague Clark Hoyt had the first story on how anti-McGovern forces were conspiring to support local candidates in November instead of the national ticket. Several papers used breastpocket "beepers" to maintain contact with their reporters, but the technique backfired...