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There is more to leadership than dropping out of the primaries just after Super Tuesday, however. Marian Wright Edelman, mentor of Hillary, then and now director of the Children's Defense Fund, was named in 1974. So was Dan Rather, coming off an excellent season of confrontational Watergate-related press conferences with President Nixon; Rather replaced Walter Cronkite as the anchor for the CBS Evening News in 1981 and has remained in the job, solo or accompanied, ever since. Another television journalist, Barbara Walters, then 43, also made the 1974 list. TIME called her "TV's first lady of talk...
...computers in a windowless warren 30 floors up in the World Trade Center, analysts spent Election Day sifting the results of more than 10,000 field interviews by exit pollers who questioned voters as they emerged from 1,039 polling places across the country. By 11:45 a.m., Murray Edelman, the veteran director of the operation, expressed astonishment that for the first time in the 12-year history of exit polling, a clear majority of voters said they had cast ballots for a Republican candidate for Congress. Distrusting their data, Edelman and his colleagues double-checked individual precincts for glitches...
Past speakers at the Kennedy School conference have included President Neil L. Rudenstine, Weiner Professor of Public Policy David A. Ellwood, President of the Children's Defense Fund Marian W. Edelman and former Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander
...years that have intervened between his first and second speeches at the sight have seen the issue of family values move from the exclusive province of the right wing to a place squarely in the center of the American political scene. Listen to Jesse Jackson. Listen to Marian Wright Edelman. These pillars of the Left now make speeches that are in many ways indistinguishable--in substance, if not style--from those of Quayle and William Bennett, perhaps the leading commentator on the American crisis of values...
...early 1970s, Edelman served as director of the Center for Law and Education at Harvard...