Word: zaccaro
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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After ten grueling days in the national spotlight, Geraldine Ferraro and John Zaccaro took a midweek break at their comfortable home in Forest Hills, N. Y. They were surrounded by their extended political family: accountants, campaign aides, Secret Service agents. In a wide-ranging interview with TIME New York Bureau Chief John Stacks and Washington Correspondent David Beckwith, the candidate and her husband spoke candidly, and heatedly, about what has happened to them. The correspondents' report...
Ferraro seemed fired up by her press conference, eager to get back into the political fight. Zaccaro, who has lost ten pounds in a fortnight, appeared tired. In the rush of events, he had postponed checking into a hospital for a minor hernia operation-an added problem in what Ferraro described as "one of the worst weeks of our lives...
...been made so, in Ferraro's view, not by legitimate public interest in her family but by an excess of innuendo, including attempts to link Zaccaro with transgressions by tenants in buildings managed by his firm. Said she: "I think the public is entitled to know whether or not I'm married to Jack the Ripper. I think they're entitled to know whether or not we pay our fair share of taxes. But what I think is wrong is what's going on now. I mean, every day there is another story about another building...
Troubling her too is an imbalance she detects in the whirlwind of press reports. Among the examples she cited were the screaming headlines in local newspapers about peeling paint and other minor building violations in properties managed by Zaccaro, despite a solid endorsement of his record voiced by a New York City housing official. As she put it: "Over a number of years, P. Zaccaro Co. [the firm founded by his father] has managed thousands of buildings, been involved in probably thousands of sales and maybe tens of thousands of leases. With all that volume, if you want to question...
...have been avoided, or at least prevented from reaching the dangerous point that it did, with a bit more foresight and more cooperation between the presidential and vice-presidential nominees. To begin with, the Mondale camp's prenomination review of the finances of Ferraro and her husband John Zaccaro fell short of the rigorous inquisition some other potential vice-presidential choices and their families have been put through...