Word: zaccaro
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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Ferraro arrived in St. Paul with her husband John Zaccaro on July 2. Killing time while their spouses talked, Joan Mondale and Zaccaro took a tour of an art gallery. "Now tell me," Zaccaro asked, "which of the men is he going to pick?" Her reply was noncommittal. In private, she had pushed hard for the selection of a woman. "I don't have a chair at the boardroom table," she explained later about her influence on her husband. "I don't need...
...gets upset when people call me Mr. Ferraro," says Gerry's husband John Zaccaro, 51, "but I get a kick out of it." That reaction is in character. After 24 years of marriage, the Brooklyn-born Zaccaro has adapted to a self-effacing role as the proud and supportive husband of a very modern woman...
Stacks accompanied Ferraro on a dizzying round of public appearances, including a breakfast at a Jewish community center, a march in support of Soviet Jewry and a dinner at a Knights of Columbus hall. He also dined with Ferraro and her husband, Real Estate Developer John Zaccaro. "An unusual thing," Stacks observes, "was interviewing Zaccaro in his role as supportive mate. I'm used to directing those kinds of questions to the woman...
After she married Real Estate Developer John Zaccaro three days after passing the bar examination, Ferraro's law career came second to raising her three children. She worked part time in her husband's office and, incurably active, dropped in on the local Democratic club on her way home from PTA meetings and children's ballet classes...
...couple's three children, ages 22, 20 and 17, attended expensive prep schools (Choate, Spence) and private colleges (Brown, Middlebury). Ferraro, who flies home from her small Washington apartment every chance she gets, is very close to her husband of 24 years. Tall, stolid and implacably calm, Zaccaro is a steadying influence on his peripatetic wife. He overcame initial objections to her career ("I was real domineering then, but I've changed a lot"), and now radiates pride, escorting her silently but genially to the myriad banquets and functions that crowd her calendar...