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...raising taxes. This Administration has been talking and working for three years to ease the burden of taxation on all Americans." Worst of all, from the Democrats' viewpoint, the party will appear to be preaching fear of the future, and that is scarcely as appealing in the voting booth as Reagan's all-weather optimism...
History, so this is how it's made. One tends to think of history making in terms of treaties, crownings, facts, but it's the mind that makes the changes. Come November, a woman from Tulsa (Hartford, Butte) will hear the curtain of the voting booth shut behind her, and she will be alone with America and her own life. Another woman's name will be on the ballot before her. However she votes, her thoughts about her place in the world will not be the same again...
...long run, what happened in Minnesota was not just politics. The selection of Ferraro will affect not only the woman in the voting booth. It will be equally felt by the man who-today, next month, next year-stares across his desk, dining room table or bed sheets and sees someone as if for the first time. There is no analogue to lean on, no sentimentalization to rely on, nothing Americans can do now but work the matter out for themselves and see where the rejiggled republic stands. The world's most powerful nation may be ready...
...assurances that there were no potential problems in her past. As he left in a cab for the airport, Reilly found a TV van following. "Lose it," Reilly barked at the driver, who raced the car through alleys and side streets. At the airport, Reilly hid in a phone booth until his plane was ready to leave. On the same day, Mondale-aide Michael Berman went over finances with Ferraro's husband in New York...
Beneath the booth entire ballrooms and hundreds of Square-free! of floor space have been converted into press offices, souvenir stands and cafeteria style restaurants. Entrepreneurs offer "Convention '84" sweatshirts for $22, T-shirts for $13, and posters...