Geraldine Ferraro 
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
8/10/2020
The Woman Who Paved the Way
Here, compiled from sources including Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro’s memoir, contemporary news clippings and interviews with players who were part of this history, is a look back at Ferraro’s exhilarating, much-scrutinized path to becoming a political standard-bearer.
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6/21/2020
Walter Mondale's Campaign Did Accomplish Something (Ask Joe Biden's Future Running Mate)
by Joel K. Goldstein
Walter Mondale's choice of Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate in 1984 opened the major parties' general election tickets to women for the first time. Will Joe Biden's campaign fulfill that promise this year?
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