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Your article highlights the improving role of women in professional and public life [NATION, July 1]. Although we have yet to consider seriously a woman for the U.S. presidency, it is encouraging to see that two such strong women as Hillary Rodham Clinton and Elizabeth Hanford Dole are role models for younger women. This is healthy for our society, as there is greater acceptance of women in positions of power. I look forward to the day when we contemplate the role of the President's husband. JAMES MCKEAN WOOD New Hope, Pennsylvania Via E-mail...
...amusing and a bit sad at the end of the 20th century to watch two powerful, talented American women competing, power bite for power bite, for the position of--First Lady. Why are Elizabeth Dole and Hillary Clinton, both "accomplished and ambitious" politicians with Ivy League degrees and high-flying careers, battling it out for the honor of being the unpaid helpmeet of the most powerful man in the world? Is it because they're devoted wives or because the White House has a glass ceiling? If these women have star-quality expertise, then, yes, we should hold the proposed...
Forget about Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Dole. What America needs is a Bess Truman; she left it all up to Harry. STANLEY DUPLANTIS Houston...
...gave Bob Dole credit for suggesting the idea of a First Ladies' debate, but the Hillary Clinton Quarterly originated the idea more than two years ago. We still think it is a good one. How many people really want to hear monotone Bob and boxer-briefs Bill spew platitudes for an hour or two? Give us a real catfight with some honest blood and guts. It's the adrenaline rush the American political system so badly craves. FRANK MARAFIOTE, Editor Hillary Clinton Quarterly Concord, New Hampshire...
...DOLE'S GREATEST ASSET