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With her style and presence, Geraldine Ferraro was by far the liveliest of the four nominees. Intense, good-humored, always listening (a rare trait in a politician), she surprised Americans with her fast-mouthed New Yorker's style. Still, although Ferraro was a first-class campaigner, it was not she but Walter Mondale who made the decision to put her on a national ticket...
...nominations for 1984 included the obvious, Ronald Reagan, who has been Man of the Year twice, and such makers of major news as Jose Napoleon Duarte, Geraldine Ferraro and the terrorist. TIME's readers, as ever, weighed in with dozens of candidates in hundreds of letters. In the end the editors chose Peter Ueberroth, impresario of the hugely successful Summer Olympics, because they saw in him the embodiment of the entrepreneurial spirit that is flourishing...
...years since the Constitution was written, someone of their sex had never been considered for the job? What if, apart from a male President, they had never seen a male bishop, or chairman of the board of General Motors? They would have felt the way women did before Geraldine Ferraro was nominated to run for Vice President on the Democratic ticket. Excluded...
...efforts to secure a greater role for women in the nation's political life. The Democratic Convention was the spectacular culmination of those efforts. Women across the country spoke of feeling validated, of being at last included, of, simply, being proud. That pride grew as it became clear that Ferraro was especially suited to her historic role...
...Ferraro's manner did turn off many voters. But in the end, she went a long way toward convincing all but the most skeptical that she had the right stuff, not only to become the first woman and the first Italian American to run on a major party's national ticket, but to be equal to the stress of being a heartbeat away from the presidency. Continuously under a scrutiny more intense than was ever before applied to a vice-presidential candidate, she made few gaffes and gave no ground. With her candidacy hanging in the balance, she called...