Word: ferraro
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...bond between the totally dissimilar men remains strong. Though far from an articulate intellectual, Sasso has a gift for analytic thinking. A street kid from New Jersey, he is canny about people and comfortable with concepts and broad strategies. Through his two national campaigns, with Ted Kennedy and Geraldine Ferraro, he developed an army of political contacts, and he deals easily with politicians...
...that women will now vote for Bush because he's got a handsome running mate), which was clearly involved in the decision since Bush trails so badly among women voters, is not only incredibly insulting to women, but doesn't make logical sense. After all, by that logic, Geraldine Ferraro (or Meryl Streep) would have closed the gap among male voters for Walter Mondale in 1984 And it's not like Quayle has a popular record to go along with his pretty face: he's staunchly opposed to the ERA, comparable worth and parental leave...
...older schools at the university, says Harvard Vice President John Shattuck, it "is still the new kid on the block working to define its mission." Its efforts to be taken seriously academically are hampered by its high visibility as a kind of Betty Ford clinic for recovering politicians: Geraldine Ferraro, David Stockman, David Gergen and former Senator John Culver have had stints there. The rigorous Mid-Career Public Administration program has come to be known as the "mid-life crisis program." The school is also suspect as a relatively painless way to give a Harvard gloss to an undergraduate degree...
...importance of a job that John Nance Garner ridiculed as "not worth a pitcher of warm spit." There are five stages in the downward slide of a Vice President: 1) Euphoria, which rarely outlasts the convention; 2) Examination, as the press rummages through back closets searching for another Ferraro furor; 3) Ennui, which sets in when the nominee learns that he is not permitted to make news as he barnstorms in backwaters like Biloxi and Butte; 4) Ephemeral Elevation, a honeymoon that lasts until the new Veep sees through the pious promises that he will be a "full partner...
After returning to Dukakis' staff following the Ferraro campaign Sasso and another gubernatorial aides urged Dukakis to run for president, saying his optimism and record would offer the Democratic Party a fresh alternative to the "doom and gloom" approach Sasso blamed for the crushing defeats of Mondale in 1984 and President Carter...