Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason for the confidence is that many new leaders, previously well known only locally, emerged at Houston. Among those who rose to the occasion were California Assemblywoman Maxine Waters, 39, a black delegate from Los Angeles who led the minority women on their common resolution, and New York City Council President-elect Carol Bellamy, 35, and Seattle Lawyer Judith Lonnquist, 39, both of whom acted as floor leaders during the conference. Another was Ann Saunier, 31, human resources director of the papermaking Mead Corp. in Dayton, who won applause from all sides for her cool, impartial chairing of the conference...
...plank calling for the end to discrimination on the basis of sexual preference would discredit the whole national plan in the eyes of the public ?and Congress. During the debate, Betty Friedan, who had long argued that endorsing lesbian rights would hurt the women's movement, rose to announce a change of heart: "As someone who has grown up in Middle America and has loved men?perhaps too well?I've had trouble with this issue. But we must help women who are lesbians in their own civil rights...
...delicacy with which Price says he handled the "18-minute gap" question with Rose Mary Woods illustrates this know-nothing White House mentality. Price admits
...June 20, 1972 tape "devastating" to the President's defense, "stretching coincidence to its furthest limits." He says, however, that he always made a point of not asking Woods about the gap while federal prosecutors were investigating the erasure. "I assumed she quite possibly had [erased the tape]. Rose and I are close friends, and if she had, I didn't want her to tell me about it, in case I was ever called on to testify." (Price adds that since the federal investigators dropped the tape gap probe, Woods has on several occasions denied that she was responsible...
...evident even here at Harvard. During a recent interview, Price pointed to a pile of papers of his desk at the Institute of Politics--a draft of a section from the memoirs he is reading for Nixon. It is apparently a routine occurrence for Julie Nixon Eisenhower or Rose Mary Woods to telephone for Price at the institute. Occasionally, even Nixon himself reportedly calls the institute looking for Price, much to the surprise of students answering phones there...