The 1984 Campaign & Debates An Interview with President Bush NewsHour Coverage of the 1984 Debates JIM LEHRER: Ms. Ferrarro welcome. GERALDINE FERRARO: Thank you JIM LEHRER: We want to go through your experience, your own experience with national debates. And then get some comments, some overall comments on the process and debating generally Your debate was as candidate for vice president in ...

The Moschovitis Group and publisher ABC-CLIO celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention--the beginning of the American women's rights movement--with the publication of A History of the American Suffragist Movement.

Geraldine Ferraro Geraldine Ferraro Geraldine Ann Ferraro earned a place in history as the first woman vice-presidential candidate on a national party ticket. Ms. Ferraro was born in Newburgh, New York on August 26, 1935. Her father, an Italian immigrant, died when she was eight. Her mother worked as a seamstress. She skipped three grades, finished high school at 16, and won a college ...

Inspiration From the Land Where Dreams Come True by Geraldine Ferraro U.S. Democratic Vice Presidential Nomination Associated Press text of New York Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro's July 19, 1984 speech accepting the Democratic vice presidential nomination as delivered at the Democratic National Convention, in San Francisco Ladies and gentlemen of the convention: My name is Geraldine Ferraro. I stand ...

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