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...home, Truman was less successful. He was heavily beset by postwar shortages, inflation, strikes and the mink-coat, deep-freezer hanky-panky of a few subordinates. In responding, Truman characteristically attacked rather than turned defensive. When the railroad workers struck, he threatened to seize the railroads. In early 1948, his popularity was at a low ebb. Panicky party strategists declared that if the Democrats did not appease the South, the party would vanish. Some seriously suggested that Truman should resign. Truman responded by proposing an elaborate series of civil rights measures that only further antagonized the South...
...curlers and the traveling iron have now been packed away, as have many of the plain Republican cloth coats that Nixon made so much of in his famous 1952 Checkers speech. With the spotlight constantly trained on her, the First Lady has succumbed at last to the world of mink and designer labels...
...country and the world rather than its own hang-ups?cliches like not being the first President to lose a war." Nor is Willens concerned that McGovern's tax policies would ruin his own fortune. "We will get what we pay for," he says. "Not an extra mink coat for Mrs. Willens, but more stability and the survival of the system that I love and that has worked for me. We must share in order to keep...
Daly letter which appeared along with similar moans from other Ivy League administrators, had an immediate impact on the House. Congresswoman Patsi Mink (D. Hawaii) rose on the floor Nov 4 to say she had been astounded" by the letter "He would have us believe that sex discrimination is the right of the institution just because it is a matter of educational policy." She said. Another Congresswoman, Martha Griffiths (D-Mich.), acidly suggested that Harvard fire Daly "and put a competent Radcliffe undergraduate in his place...
...among women even more than men." Singling out Gloria Steinem for having referred to marriage as "prostitution," Ms. Friedan protests "the assumption that no woman would ever want to go to bed with a man if she didn't need to sell her body for bread or a mink coat. Does this mean that any woman who admits tenderness or passion for her husband, or any man, has sold out to the enemy?" Ms. Steinem responded with disdain: "Having been falsely accused by the male establishment journalists of liking men too much, it's a relief...