Word: weddington
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Weddington and other pro-Carterites vocally defend the president's work for women. Carter, they say, helped rally votes in Congress when they were needed most and has played a critical role in informing the public about what the ERA would do. They criticize the women's groups for failing to endorse the president; Carter has backed the women, they argue. The women should back Carter...
...Sarah Weddington, Carter's special adviser on women, echoes what Ramsay believes. Presidential phone calls, Weddington explains, have often backfired, firming up those legislators already against the ERA. "In Florida, a state legislator got up and said, 'I just got a phone call from the President of the United Sates. But I don't listen to him. I listen to him. I listen to the voters of my district.' " And the voters said...
...While Weddington remains optimistic that three states will ratify before the deadline, Ramsay is not. From her extensive trips into "enemy territory" to sell the ERA, Ramsay's impression is that many legislatures plan to "sit on the vote," to bury it by avoidance. So convinced is she that the amendment faces death that Ramsay has asked House Speaker Tip O'Neill to set up a meeting to discuss the possibility of introducing a bill to allow for the indefinite extension of the ERA ratification on deadline...
...history of Western Civilization, the facts are pretty clear that man's progress is accelerated in periods when...we allow markets to allocate resources," (Rep. Phil Gramm, (D-Tex.) and "My job is helping the President keep his own commitment to women's issues" (Presidential adviser Sarah Weddington). In his desire to make all those interviews worth his time, Broder seems to have suffered a touch of the Elizabeth Drew disease: the uncontrollable urge simply to retype rather than rethink one's notes...