Word: farenthold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans had "provoked" the airport trouble in order to create "a media event." That triggered angry replies from the Americans involved in the incident. Said Derian: "Baloney." Said White: "We were attacked by a flying wedge of plainclothes goons." Added another member of the group, Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold, Texas attorney and onetime gubernatorial candidate: "We were being as careful as we could because the whole point was to get Kim safely back home." As for Ambassador Walker, she snapped, "He really couldn't have cared less what happened...
Last Thursday, Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold, the former Texas state representative who won 404 votes as a vice-presidential convention nominee in 1972, stood on the convention floor in San Francisco looking up at Ferraro and suddenly remembered something she had repressed for twelve years: "They didn't want me to be nominated, and after my name was placed in nomination, Pierre Salinger came and took out our floor telephone." Mondale's choice of a woman, she said, "felt like a big wave that swept away all the disappointments and defeats of the last twelve years...
Vice-presidential bids were more common. As early as 1924, the Democratic Convention considered, and rejected, South Carolina Committeewoman Lena Springs. The last strong bid was by Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold of Texas, who won 404 Democratic delegate votes in 1972 but was beaten by Thomas Eagleton. The small parties that occupy the fringes of American politics have been more willing to support women. In 1980 there were seven nominations for the No. 2 spot, including LaDonna Harris as vice-presidential choice of the Citizens Party and Angela Davis as that of the Communists. Such gestures, however, remained little more than...