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Gerald Ford's surprising prediction from 1989: How America will get its first female president (video) [1]

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Date: 2024-07-23 19:54:59+00:00

During my visiting lecturer days in Europe (early 20-aughts) one of the most common questions I got over lunch was “Why haven’t the states ever had a woman president?” What can you do? i hate explaining anything on that level appealing to ‘cowboy’ mentality. So i blathered versions of: “first, i don’t know for sure, second it’s an ingrained sexist old boys network, third some surprising old timey religious influences, fourth beats me, but i really hope that situation is remedied soon” (try translating that palaver with under two years at the Goethe-Institut) -sigh-

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