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Clinton confidant Vernon Jordan, who was interviewing candidates, warned Albright that lobbying for the job would backfire. "Did he tell you that he would take your case to the President himself?" Geraldine Ferraro asked her friend...
...career and turning her home into a think tank, where she ran a sort of salon for Democratic foreign policy makers. She taught international relations at Georgetown, where students voted her the most popular professor four years in a row. In 1984 she pitched in as Veep candidate Geraldine Ferraro's foreign policy adviser. "She was the perfect teacher," says Ferraro. "We'd discuss arms control, missile throw weight, geopolitics, you name it. I'd make a tape of the briefings and listen to them again when I was in the bathtub at night...
...done some significant work for the sake of women. She was the director of the Women in Foreign Service Program at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. There, she urged women to take a more active role in foreign policy. She was a foreign policy advisor to Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 and was an encouraging force in the latter's campaign for the vice-presidential nomination...
First the speaking fees. Robert Barnett is the contract negotiator for vice-presidential losers Geraldine Ferraro and Dan Quayle and First Lady coulda-been Kitty Dukakis. In his calculation, an articulate candidate who departs the field with an honorable discharge--no scandals, a statistically detectable base of voter support--"can do five or six speeches a month, at fees ranging from $10,000 to $30,000 a speech, for a year at a minimum." Arithmetic: $600,000 to $2.1 million in the first year...
Geraldine Ferraro, Betty Friedan, David R. Gergen, Al Gore '69, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. and Paul Simon have all been IOP Fellows...