How putting Ferraro on the ticket opens big new possibilities
CONVENTION. Why did a campaign announcement, a tactical move, send shivers up and down the spines of so many American women, so many American men? Why, on Thursday, July 12, 1984, did a jolt run through American society, one that caused men and women to stop one another on streets and in offices across the country to discuss the news, one that generated bursts of good feeling—and nervous glances? Because a political taboo of two centuries' standing had finally been abandoned: a woman, at last,...
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