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...spring of 1983 the Women's Presidential Project, coordinated by former Congresswoman Bella Abzug, sent questionnaires to all the announced presidential candidates. A follow-up series of meetings were held to "teach them how to reach women," says Mildred Jeffrey, a longtime official of the United Auto Workers Union. In July 1983, five of the six presidential candidates traveled to San Antonio to meet the National Women's Political Caucus. It seems amazing now to remember that this was the first time that presidential candidates had made such a pilgrimage, that until then women had been considered...
...uncertain about how to address her. In a letter last year to the Washington Post, she clarified the matter, sort of: "I just wanted to let you know that I am a married Ms. I am Mrs. John A. Zaccaro to my kids' teachers and the electric company; Congresswoman Ferraro when I run for reelection; Geraldine to many of my constituents; Gerry to my friends, and Ms. Ferraro to just about anyone else...
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...