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Article: Leave Wendy Gramm Out of This
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 7, 1994
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H e's got the money and the ideas. Is there anything that can stop
Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas) from winning the GOP nomination for
president?
Yes, if a few deep thinkers at the boring paper are to be
believed. It's the politics of race.
Confused? I was, too. Phil Gramm's skin is as white as Ivory
soap. But thanks to the Chicago Tribune I now know that Gramm's
wife, Wendy, is a Korean American.
If you're like me, you probably don't care. You may be
impressed that Wendy Gramm has a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern
University. And you may be impressed that she served with
distinction in the Reagan and Bush administrations. But Wendy
Gramm's ethnicity? Who cares?
Evidently, the ...