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Washington--When Ann Wexler, assistant to President Carter, talks about the future, she talks about the Carter administration's priorities for the next four years. Specifically she focuses on economic revitalization, the President's energy programs, and new strategies for ERA ratification...
...election, Wexler, who for three years has been the President's troubleshooter dealing with special intrest groups, is facing some more pressing political realities. "I don't know who's going to win," she says...
Still, despite yesterday's polls, which showed Ronald Reagan tenaciously clinging to his hold on electoral votes, Wexler is optimistic. Her hope is that if people think Reagan will win, "it will have a substantial impact on the Anderson vote," she says...
...Wexler, sitting on the yellow couch of her elegant White House office, expresses confusion over the lack of support for the President. "It troubles me that people don't acknowledge what Jimmy Carter has done for the nation," she says, adding, "The trouble lies not with Carter but with what the people expect a President can accomplish...
...feminist forces wonder about the Phyllis Schlafly women-will-be-thrown-out-in-the-streets mentality, they can only shake their heads at Reagan supporters. "If the Republican party supports equal rights," Anne Wexler, a special assistant to Carter, asks, "why isn't it in their platform?" Incredulity is mixed with general fear; they know that anti-ERA support and the Right to Life movement run deep. While they ridicule measures like Reagan's promise to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court, they privately fear the worst. And they desperately hope that the important issues--overt social and economic...