Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's replies were clear and direct. One woman was worried about the emphasis being put on making it easier to fire people. His response: "It is an abuse for a good employee to protect one who's no good." Another woman was applauded after saying she was often made to feel ashamed of working for the Government. "As President," said Carter, "I have some of the same feeling you do. Some of my old classmates and friends think I have disgraced my class by becoming a full-time Government employee...
...either like me the way I am, or they don't," Midge Costanza liked to say. In the White House, as the months wore on, it seemed that more and more members of Jimmy Carter's all-male Georgia Mafia did not cotton to the brash, opinionated woman who served as his Assistant for Public Liaison-his emissary to women, ethnics and other demanding constituent groups. "A flake and a clown," some staffers grumbled openly when she made headlines with her impulsive acts-prematurely calling for Bert Lance's resignation, injudiciously using her office to round...
After the celebrated Amaretto-and-cream affair six months ago, in which Jordan was accused of throwing his drink at a woman in a Washington bar, the White House issued a 33-page denial. This time its response was confined to a taciturn "We have no leads, and are not pursuing it." But Jordan was irate. "Last night might have been the last straw for me," he said. "People will be lining up to throw pies in my face if I try to go anywhere...
Galeria--Boylston St.--An Unmarried Woman...
FICTION: Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙ Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories, Gabriel Garcia Márquez ∙ Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙ The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi ∙ The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke ∙ The World According to Garp, John Irving