Word: ladonna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LaDonna Harris says she believes a First Lady can take an active, policy-oriented position in the White House and that she plans to continue her "activist role" in women's issues and native Americans' rights if her husband, Democratic presidential hopeful Fred Harris, wins the presidency...
...LaDonna Harris has already received one "endorsement" on her own. Rep. Morris Udall (D -Ariz.), one of her husband's opponents in the Democratic nomination race, told Fred Harris in New Hampshire that he would like to see LaDonna as vice president...
While at the University of Oklahoma, Harris married LaDonna Crawford, who is half Comanche, half Irish; she is now director of Americans for Indian Opportunity. The couple have three children. Harris earned his law degree from the university and briefly went into private practice. At 25, he was elected to the state senate, and in 1964, at 33, he ran for the U.S. Senate. Oklahoma Senator Robert S. Kerr had died suddenly, and Harris received the support of Kerr's powerful oil family. He narrowly defeated Republican Bud Wilkinson, the former Oklahoma University football coach. In 1966 Harris...
...LaDonna Crawford Harris, Litt.D., president of Americans for Indian Opportunity...
...LaDonna Harris, wife of Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris and herself part Comanche, believes the root of the BIA's problem is the Government's paternalistic attitude toward all Indians. Says she: "We are treated like children. We are not allowed to make our own mistakes." Further, she declares, "there are no goals in the bureau, no policy...