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This Week in History: March 25-29
The memorial commemorated more than 58,000 Americans who were killed in Vietnam or remained missing. 2011: Geraldine Ferraro , the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket, died at Massachusetts General Hospital at age
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TRANSCRIPT: Female Senators Sit Down With Diane Sawyerfor me in thinking about how I would make that difference was in the year that I graduated from college watching Geraldine Ferraro cross the stage at the Democratic National Convention and accept the nomination as vice president. And I was a newly
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Vice Presidential Debate Shockers: Eight Moments We'll Never Forget
into a punchline. George H.W. Bush 'Helps' Geraldine Ferraro 'With That' (1984) An historic encounter – Ferraro see primetime until four years later, when he met Geraldine Ferraro , and Walter Mondale, too, would have to wait another
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The Global Note: The Fury Spreads…Guarding U.S. Embassies…The Pope To Lebanon…Signing Off, After 28 Years
was the day I started at ABC News. In the news then: The U.N. demanding a ceasefire in the Iran-Iraq war; Geraldine Ferraro on the cover of Time Magazine; 21 killed at a California McDonald's; and Vanessa Williams gives up her Miss America
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Biden in Chains, Obama's Seamus Joke, Who Doesn't Support Medicare Cuts? (PM Note)
Think of Spiro Agnew's foot-in-mouth disease; Tom Eagelton's medical history; the real-estate holdings of Geraldine Ferraro 's husband; the unbearable lightness of Dan Quayle; Sarah Palin's reading list. There is no evidence that Paul
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Hot or Not: Most Attractive VP Picksquite cut it when he hoped to advance to the presidency in 2000 against George W Bush. Geraldine Ferraro Category: Age when selected: 48 Geraldine Ferraro was an exciting and attractive choice to join Walter Mondale on the Democratic ticket in
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Paul Ryan's Pick Makes a Ticket of Firsts
presidential ticket has had a congressperson as the VP pick. That year, Democrat Walter Mondale tapped New York Rep. Geraldine Ferraro . (1984 was also the last time Ryan's home state of Wisconsin went red in a presidential election.) Ryan has
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'This Week' Transcript: Tim Pawlenty and David AxelrodPaul Ryan has only been a member of Congress, haven't had a member of Congress on the ticket since I think 1984, Geraldine Ferraro , limited national experience, and the experience he's had has all been inside the Beltway in Washington
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How a Senate Liberal Found Popularity in Purple Ohio
state toward Romney in the presidential election. Joan McLean, an Ohio Wesleyan politics professor who helped get Geraldine Ferraro on the ticket with Walter Mondale in 1984, said that because of Brown's familiarity in the state, it would be
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Barbara Bush, Hater of 'Ugly' Campaigns?
Even Barbara Bush herself has dipped into the mean pool. In 1984, she referred to vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro as "that $4 million - I can't say it, but it rhymes with rich." In her interview this evening, Bush scowled
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New York Election: Republican Bob Turner Takes Anthony Weiner’s Seat
loss for Democrats knowing that the seat also belonged to Senator Charles Schumer and former Vice Presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro . The economy and even the candidates’ stances on Israel have become vital issues in the race. The Turner camp tried
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New York Election: Republican Bob Turner Takes Anthony Weiner’s Seat
loss for Democrats knowing that the seat also belonged to Senator Charles Schumer and former Vice Presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro . The economy and even the candidates’ stances on Israel have become vital issues in the race. The Turner camp tried
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Speaker Boehner Has ‘Different Approach’ to Job Creation than Democrats
district, one that’s been represented by Anthony Weiner, also represented by Chuck Schumer, and also represented by Geraldine Ferraro . This is not a district that Republicans have any right to believe that we can win, but we do have a good candidate
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The Note: Obama’s Unanswered Questions On Libya: What Will He Say?
gun buyer passes an instant background check. The event will be held this afternoon in Tucson. NOTED: REMEMBERING GERALDINE FERRARO . Funeral services for Ferraro will be held Thursday morning at 9:30am at the Church of Saint Vincent
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The Note's Must-Reads for Monday, March 28, 2011
seemingly as far away as ever. LINK GERALDINE FERRARO : ABC News’ Bill McGuire: “ Geraldine Ferraro , First Woman VP Candidate, Dies at 75 ” Geraldine Ferraro , the first woman to run for vice president
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Geraldine Ferraro , First Woman VP Candidate, Dies at 75Geraldine Ferraro , the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket and Malia will grow up in a more equal America because of the life Geraldine Ferraro chose to live." Former President George H.W. Bush said he and
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EXCERPT: 'My Fellow Americans' by Michael Waldmanfades into the woodwork. We can dismiss Reverend Wright as a crank or a demagogue, just as some have dismissed Geraldine Ferraro , in the aftermath of her recent statements, as harboring some deep-seated racial bias. But race is an issue that I believe
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Racism in Obama's America One Year Later
shortly after the incident apologizing for using "boy," a term widely believed to be derogatory toward black men. Geraldine Ferraro Then, March 2008: The one-time Democratic vice presidential candidate made headlines while working on Secretary
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State of the Union Not Immune From Racial Innuendoshortly after the incident apologizing for using "boy," a term widely believed to be derogatory toward black men. Geraldine Ferraro Then, March 2008: The one-time Democratic vice presidential candidate made headlines while working on Secretary
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Barack Obama Year in Office: the Racial Divide
president rather than a president who happens to be black." President Obama: 'More About Direction Than Complexion' Geraldine Ferraro , who made history in 1984 as the first major-party female vice-presidental candidate, attributed the Democratic
