Word: congresswoman
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Five years later, in October 1983, in a bellwether article on the idea of a woman Vice President as "the logical next step," TIME suggested that Ferraro, by then a three-term Congresswoman, "would bring an ethnic and urban balance" to the campaigns of several of the then presidential contenders...
...aide in charge of the Veep hunt, also tried to slip into San Francisco. But spotted by a CBS camera crew at the airport, he explained candidly that he was there to see not Feinstein but Ferraro, who had arrived for the pre-convention planning. He met with the Congresswoman for two hours in her Hyatt Hotel suite, seeking assurances that there were no potential problems in her past. As he left in a cab for the airport, Reilly found a TV van following. "Lose it," Reilly barked at the driver, who raced the car through alleys and side streets...
Reilly dialed Ferraro's hotel in San Francisco, got the Queens Congresswoman on the phone and handed the receiver to Mondale. "Here goes," said Mondale to his aides, and into the mouthpiece, to Ferraro: "I'd like you to run with me ... [pause] Great!" He passed the phone back to Reilly to arrange the logistics of getting her to Minnesota for the formal announcement. Reilly apologized for putting pressure on her just as she was about to deliver a foreign policy speech to the World Affairs Council in San Francisco. Unruffled, the Congresswoman replied, "I think...
When Ferraro is away from their two-story, Tudor-style home in Queens, she telephones her husband several times each day. He accompanies the Congresswoman at public functions in her congressional district. His rationale: "People would wonder if she were there alone." Accustomed by now to most political rituals, he has occasionally been outraged by politically inspired innuendos about his wife. Just before Ferraro's selection was announced last week, he said, "I just hope it doesn't get nasty...
...Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar of Ohio tapped into that feeling last Thursday, when she addressed a seminar of working women at a Cleveland junior college. "The excitement and the enthusiasm that we all had for each other in that room was electrifying," she says. "Here we were trying to talk about how women can attain policy-making goals, whether in office or small business or a hospital, and after Mondale's announcement, we knew we could do anything...