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Reagan accomplished his landslide partly because of his masterly exploitation of the American mood. He both contributed to the sense of optimism and purpose and profited from it. In a way, he also benefited from two developments in the Democratic Party: the candidacies of Jesse Jackson and Geraldine Ferraro. If Americans have recovered some sense of their own virtue in the world as a nation, it is to some extent because they felt proud of themselves for accepting the idea that a woman and a black can run for the highest offices in the land. Jackson's race...
...means, read the rest Klein's work may not be as zippy or as timely as a New York Times post mortem on Gerry Ferraro, but it's impact on the Women's Movement will probably be more significant...
...subject was not a new one for Kirkpatrick, who told TIME editors at a meeting in Dallas during the Republican National Convention that she sympathized with Geraldine Ferraro in her pioneering role as the first woman vice-presidential candidate. While political opportunities for women are opening, she continued, "it is a very harsh game, and I do not think women want whatever it is at the end of that particular rainbow badly enough to pursue...
...Ferraro, who delivered her address at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, was the second participant in TIME'S Distinguished Speakers Program, which twice a year sponsors lectures by the magazine's cover subjects at a college of his or her choice. President Reagan, who spoke last February at Eureka College in Eureka, Ill., his alma mater, was the first speaker in the series...
Looking tanned and relaxed after a postelection vacation in the Virgin Islands, Ferraro told the enthusiastic audience of 1,300 that she rejected the popular perception that the Democratic ticket lost because it clung to the gospel of Big Government. "Read the speeches," she said. "We didn't call for massive new federal jobs programs, but for more responsible monetary, fiscal and trade policies to promote and strengthen the private sector." In the course of her half-hour address, Ferraro spelled out her vision of the party's future. Some excerpts...