Word: committeewoman
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...Democratic National Committee. McGovern wanted Chairman Larry O'Brien to stay on, even though some of the Senator's staff objected. Strongly believing that the McGovern ticket is doomed this fall, O'Brien refused the offer. In his place, McGovern proposed Mrs. Jean Westwood, a savvy Utah national committeewoman who ran the McGovern citizens' movement in 17 Western states. McGovern wanted her partly because she is a woman, but also because her ties to regulars, including labor leaders, are excellent...
...flying squads" appeared in Flatbush to stump for her. The campaign was almost purely one of issues -and age. Says Miss Holtzman: "I was a constituent of his, and I never saw him. He never seemed to attend any of the local meetings." With two years as a state committeewoman behind her, Liz Holtzman sailed into Celler, buttonholing anyone who would listen at supermarkets and subway stops. She attacked him on the basis of absenteeism, and pointed out that he did not even keep an office in Brooklyn. She also blanketed the area with copies of a Jack Anderson column...
...familiar liberationists like Betty Friedan, it also includes Liz Carpenter, the tart-tongued Texan who used to be Lady Bird Johnson's press secretary; Businesswoman Virginia Allan, who served as chairman of President Nixon's task force on women's rights; and former Republican National Committeewoman Elly Peterson, her party's candidate for Michigan Senator eight years ago. The members of the caucus have little in common but their sex and a determination to raise its standing in American politics...
...Holtzman, a former assistant to Mayor John V. Lindsay and current Democratic State Committeewoman, is not entering the primary as an electoral exercise...
...attracted 1,900 people, several hundred more than Hubert Humphrey had drawn the previous day. Phoenix, in the heart of Goldwater country, also accorded Lindsay a cordial welcome. In San Francisco, he found a thriving "Lindsay for President" group and a welcome endorsement from a former longtime National Democratic Committeewoman, Mrs. Rudel Gatov. "I'll sup port him and be part of his campaign," Mrs. Gatov said, "if he decides...