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Frances (Sissy) Farenthold, president of the National Women's Political Caucus, urged American women to radically increase their participation in politics, in a panel discussion yesterday...
Speaking before approximately 50 women and 8 men, Farenthold gave a brief sketch of her political career. She said, "I am still working...for the day when unqualified blacks, unqualified browns, and unqualified women can compete with unqualified men in politics...
...Nixon, while Connally runs the national effort in Washington. Connally's group, however, is composed mainly of conservative businessmen, not unlike those who contributed to the fund used to finance the Watergate break-in. "I really feel that those people would be voting the same way without Connally," Farenthold said last week. "I think he's reflective of the way many people vote, but I don't think he brings people...
Students in Texas, as in other parts of the country, have been largely apathetic toward the '72 campaign. Although there was great excitement on campus over the Farenthold campaign last spring, the political enthusiasm of most student liberals and radicals seems to have waned. Robert Clark, Nixon's state coordinator for universities, gleefully cited a poll which showed Nixon leading 57-40 among the 18-24 year-olds in Texas. "The Gallup all-college poll showed McGovern leading 49-47 nationwide, but we feel we are running much stronger than that in Texas," Clark said. "We feel like...
McGovern, too, could make a good race in Texas, but perhaps not quite good enough to win. Farenthold squeezed more votes out of the Texas electorate last spring than any liberal politician in the state's history--more votes than any other liberal will be able to do this year. Much of Farenthold's appeal came in the wake of her exploits with the Dirty Thirty. To many, she was seen more as a reform candidate than as one of those "wild-eyed welfare maniacs from out of state...