Word: eleanor
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WASHINGTON Correspondent Bonnie Angela has covered politicians and other public people on six continents for 16 years, but the last place she expected to be the other day was in a Bayonne, N.J., brassiere factory. When Eleanor McGovern chose that unlikely spot to hustle votes for Husband George, Angelo and other reporters were on hand. Politics has obviously changed since the genteel kaffeeklatsch campaigning that most political wives used to practice, and the jet-paced public styles of Pat Nixon and Eleanor McGovern are at the heart of this week's cover story...
Angelo, who did the principal reporting on both women, has also written about the activities of most of Washington's prominent politicians, including the men behind Pat and Eleanor. She began following Mrs. McGovern down the political trail during the Democratic primaries last spring. Last week, amidst a hectic schedule of campaign visits to youth groups, senior citizens, day-care centers and factories, the two sat down again for a private chat in the McGovern hotel suite in White Plains...
...ones in election year 1972. Last spring, George McGovern was flying over the Eastern seaboard in a private airplane, headed for a primary campaign stop, when a companion recognized another craft off the wing. "George," he advised, "get to the window. This may be your only chance to see Eleanor the rest of this campaign...
Since January, Eleanor McGovern has covered more ground and logged more flying hours than any other presidential candidate's wife in memory. Almost as if a white kid glove had been thrown at her feet, Pat Nixon seems to have risen to Eleanor's challenge. In the 1968 campaign, Pat left her husband's entourage only once-for a quick ribbon-cutting ceremony in Reno. This year, uncharacteristically stepping out from the President's shadow, the First Lady undertook the most extended solo campaign trip of her long career-a 5,500-mile, six-day tour...
Both of the wives bring to their campaigning a remarkably similar poise and professionalism, to say nothing of chic good looks that are the envy of their contemporaries in the crowds that turn out to greet them (Pat is 60, Eleanor 50). They project a warmth that reaches their listeners in a way that their spouses manage only rarely. The rest is a study in contrasting styles. Eleanor, often in pantsuits, looks like the petite, bubbly cheerleader she once was back in high school in Woonsocket, S. Dak. Pat, slim and regally straight-backed, has only once appeared...