Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...victorious candidate is sworn in, his wife dutifully holds the Bible, her gaze uplifted adoringly, and his children, sparkling with intelligence and good health, sit obediently nearby. Or do they? In the midst of this year's no-holds-barred campaign season, families of candidates high and low are beginning to change the old rules by candidly airing their grievances and trying to break out of cardboard caricatures. "They're still reticent," notes Stuart Hart, a psychologist at Purdue University. "But they're also standing up and saying, 'Hey, wait a minute, I've got needs...
...politicians, their spouses and children on their attitudes toward campaigning, media coverage and other pressures, sponsored by an Indiana-based self-help group called Partners in Politics. "Families of public officials have to learn how to do their job well without suffering in the process," says Carolyn Mutz, wife of Indiana's Lieutenant Governor and a founder of the organization. "Many political families don't know how to achieve a balance...
...Quayle's wife Marilyn responded by packing the brood off for two weeks to a friend in the country, while their father fended off questions about his background. "We needed to get accustomed to a new campaign, but we also had to get our children back on an even keel," she says. Her method for preparing children is to talk them through confrontations before they occur. "Nothing should be allowed to take them by surprise," she says. "The truth will be far less frightening for them than anything they can imagine...
Then there are the "first gentlemen" -- the male spouses who suddenly find themselves sitting on the sidelines after their wives are elected. Dr. Arthur Kunin, a kidney specialist and the husband of Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin, concedes that at first he was "not always happy waiting for my wife to come home." Kunin began to see that he had assumed the role his wife had held for the first 15 years of their marriage. "It's very important for a man to understand what being a high executive means to his wife," says Kunin. "I handled it by reversing...
...public fishbowl makes on their families. One woman recalls being followed into a public rest room and accosted about her husband's position on abortion. Another describes taking a family vacation after a grueling re-election campaign, only to find the hotel telephone ringing off the hook. One political wife even carries a supply of her husband's cards to give constituents who badger her in public. Jeanne Simon, wife of Illinois Senator Paul Simon, tries to head off such pressures by carving out regular private time with the candidate. "We ask that the staff put us together once...