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...network hurts women further by excluding them from power. "When those smoke-filled rooms open," says New Jersey Republican Congresswoman Millicent Fen wick, "there's hardly ever a woman inside." As Susan and Martin Tolchin wrote in their book Clout???Womanpower and Politics, "The smoke-filled rooms, bour-bon-and-branch-water rites and all-night poker games exclude women from the fellowship and cronyism that seal the bonds of power." Says former New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug...
...competing power groups that make up the American system have never operated in complete harmony. They have moved ahead according to the clout???electoral, financial and sometimes moral?that they could muster. During the 1960s, the blacks, the poor and the young spoke up and pushed forward. The blue collar workers, who sweated in the mines and factories, built the roads and drove the halftracks, seemed to accept stoically the role of providers and members of the Silent Majority. No longer. Today they are making themselves heard as they have not done since the turbulent 1930s. Their voices are loud...
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