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Article: POLITICAL WIVES TODAY DON'T HOVER AS STEPFORD SPOUSES.(EDITORIAL)(GUEST COLUMN)(Column)
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- The Capital Times
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- August 13, 2005
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Byline: Joel McNally
At a time when New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is gearing up to become the nation's first former first lady to run for the job her husband once held, we are forced to ponder what's fair in love and politics.
The answer, of course, is whatever works.
Any political wife who steps out to run for office on her own has to drag along a lot of additional clunky baggage, but we have clearly progressed beyond the Stepford Spouses of yore.
Pat Nixon was probably the classic life-like political mannequin to be hauled about and posed appropriately somewhere in the vicinity of her husband.
A lot of folks had trouble ...