Word: wexlers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
Carter has discovered the importance of repeating his message over and over again to make sure that it gets through undistorted. "He has learned that the President is above all a teacher," says Wexler. In the course of his campaigning, swooping down in his gleaming silver-and-blue Air Force One jet to land in Tallahassee or Boston, St. Louis or Tacoma, he has done some of the best explaining of his Administration...
...Wexler and Cunningham also disagreed on certain issues. Wexler cited President Carter's record appointing women to fill 22 percent of the "high level policy making" positions in his administration...
...federal judges that are women, President Carter has appointed 41 Wexler added, saying "in the Carter administration women make decisions...
...Wexler and Cunningham also sharply critized the Republican platform for its anti-ERA and abortion planks. "If the Republican's are committed to equal rights, why don't they have the ERA in their platform?" Wexler said...