Word: mates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ethics, were complicated and often barbed, yet she managed to seem neither combative nor defensive. Her manner was precise and serious, but relaxed and good-humored too. Her answers were lucid and carefully organized, anecdotal and unpretentious. In North Oaks, Mondale stared at the TV image of his running mate, transfixed by her grace under extraordinary pressure. "The tone is right," he marveled. "The honesty is coming through. Her integrity shows. Her integrity shows...
When Geraldine Ferraro was picked as Walter Mondale's running mate, Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. representative to the United Nations, praised the choice as "just marvelous." A decade earlier, as a political science professor at Georgetown University, Kirkpatrick wrote a pathbreaking study of gender and power in America (Political Woman, Basic Books). At a meeting with TIME editors last week in Dallas, Kirkpatrick offered an intriguing assessment of the Ferraro controversy and the future of women in American politics...
Howard Baker endured two such investigations, in 1976 and again in 1980, when he was considered as a running mate first by Gerald Ford and then by Reagan. "Dreadful" was the way he described the experiences to TIME editors in Dallas last week. Said Baker: "We gave them ten years of income tax returns, personal worth statements, personal history, medical records and incredible amounts of evidence. I paid Arthur Andersen [a major accounting firm] almost $10,000 to get that financial stuff up. It was gone over with a fine-tooth comb. We had follow-up questions for weeks...
...Mondale's historic choice of a female running mate brought less early support to the ticket than the Democrats might have hoped. Respondents enthusiastically approved the presence of a woman on a national ticket, and gave Ferraro high marks personally; 42% thought she would be a "very good"or "excellent" Vice President. Nonetheless, by a slim 43% to 39%, they believed Bush to be even better...
Mondale's running mate, Geraldine Ferraro, stuck to her rule that activities aboard her smaller and less private campaign plane must be kept off the record...