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…And all the issues put before them.
However, experts say,

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\"Women care to a greater degree than men about
issues of war and peace, the poor and equality.

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And because of the sheer number of women
voters, politicians have to pay attention to

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whatever differences may exist. Susan, it’s
probably the most frivolous issue of all, but

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how many women or is there any way of knowing how many women
vote for a male candidate because they find him attractive.

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[music]

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The president expressed surprise that
women oppose increased military spending

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and cuts in social services. Wait,
till he finds out we got the vote.

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At one time women voted the way their husbands told him
the vote because their husband was out in the world,

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and they were at home all the time, that’s all they did. Now
more and more women have gone back to work out of necessity,

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not just a desire to go to work.
It’s an absolute need.

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So women are starting to think for themselves. If
you had to describe women’s issues in one word

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as Barbara Mikulski said, it’s economics. How come our
jobs are always worth less than the jobs that men do.

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Ronald Reagan’s cuts affect
the society as a whole

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not just one small segment. And he has hurt,
not only seniors, but he has hurt everybody

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by cutting so many of the social services.
Most of the classes in the school are…

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there are between 35 and 38 students.
They no longer have music.

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They no longer have art. He’s just not
acting on the most important things.

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He’s trying to make more war. I think the
nuclear war could occur in our life,

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if we… if we let… if we don’t try to
prevent it. If we don’t make sure that…

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that we have a president who is against it.
The gender gap, it’s all media hype.

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Women vote the way their husband… In a march
1984, New York Times, CBS poll, less than

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45% of the women polled approved of Reagan’s handling
of the economy, while 62% of the men approved.

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That’s an 18-percent gender gap. Men who
believe in the gender gap eat quiche.

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In an April, 1984, more than
50% of the women polled,

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feared that Reagan’s policy in Central America
might lead to war. But only 40% of the men did.

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That’s an 11% gender gap. Most women don’t
even know where is Central America…

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When asked about how Reagan was handling his job, only
47% of the women polled, felt he was doing a good job

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in contrast to 60% of the men,
that’s the 30% gender gap.

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Women’s issues, that you mean like dieting…
In the 1982 elections, the gender gap was

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responsible for victories in
five major gubernatorial races.

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Six million more women voted than men.
Experts predict that in the 1984 elections,

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8 to 10 million more women than men will vote. Don’t
get me wrong. I’m all for the gender gap. I mean,

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I like a woman who shows a little
gender gap. Whoa! What the… Ah!

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My name is Janet Zofkie. I live in Orland Park.
Uh… My husband and I are both in retail sales.

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He owns a hardware store, and I sell even.
And I have a daughter age 13.

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My even selling started as a supplement

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towards my husband’s income when he opened
a second hardware store. It then gradually

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progressed to something I enjoyed it, now it’s
mandatory. We have to have a supplemental income.

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There’s trickle down, he hasn’t even trickled. I have
no idea where it’s going but it isn’t coming down

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to the middle class. And fairly soon there won’t
be a middle class, there’s going to be in

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a richer and upper class, and a poor class.
The Reagan administration announced today

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that poor people will not get spring
next year, but something almost as good.

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Next, sports and weather.

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Ronald Reagan is definitely not profoundly.
I… I laugh at it because one of the things

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that happened during Ronald Reagan’s administration
was that the programs that help families,

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that kept families together will cut out first. If it had
not been for those same programs on my head start programs,

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I could not look back and my
professional degree. And even though

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to a certain extent, you might wanna
say \"I pulled up by my own bootstraps.

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The bootstraps that I pulled up by were those of
somebody else being supportive enough, and saying,

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\"Here, I’m gonna give you a chance. I opened the doors,
now it’s up to you to take the opportunity to use them.\"

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I say to Ronald Reagan, \"Open up some more
doors. Allow some other people to find out

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what it is to get out there and have the
opportunity to go back to school, to work at it,

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and then, they too can be continued
to pull above their bootstraps.

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I don’t see Reagan helping us in anyway.
When he cut this, umm…

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scholarships and everything, he took their money
to put it in defense. Because all was… all these…

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all these bombs being made and everything are really necessary.
We already have enough bombs to blow over the world.

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I don’t know how many times, and there’s not
enough money for everybody to go to school.

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And then they’re taking money not only
from education that we intend on getting,

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but social security and other… other things around the
country, when you’re supposed to sit back and say, \"Okay,

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take my money and make a bomb to help
kill me?\" I mean, it just is ironic.

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In a way people really shouldn’t complain because in
his campaign speeches before he became president,

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he let people know, exactly where he stood.
He… he say he wasn’t for EI.

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He said that he likes bomb. Today in
keeping with the president’s belief

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that he show of military strength will bring
the Soviets back to the negotiating table,

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we bomb Leningrad. \"It’s okay,\" a White House spokesman
said, \"It was just a small bomb,\" filmed at 11.

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A lot of these talks that are taking place

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somebody gets mad and walks out, it
reminds me of a couple of kids playing,

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\"And you don’t play the game my way, I’m gonna take my ball
and go home.\" And these are supposed to be world leaders.

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All of us want a strong
defense, but we also want to

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have the morale of our people be strong.
We want to have an economy

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that’s strong in the private sector. And we certainly
want our institutions or educational institutions

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strong because if we don’t… if we
decay from within, we are certainly,

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uh… not going to be a secure nation. The
democrat society, you’re not alone.

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You have to share things with other people, and you
have to learn how to share, and how to be considerate,

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and how to think not only for
yourself, but for someone else and

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for someone else’s children and for someone
else’s grandchildren. My husband and I voted for

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Reagan in ‘80, but we will
not vote for him in ‘84.

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We lost our farm because of his policies,
but we are trying to regain it.

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In September of ‘81, we got a

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letter from the county supervisor. He
wrote the nation and the government has a

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new president and our agency a new administration.
They have a different attitude toward

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past due and delinquent loans. They expect
us to collect what is due the government and

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not be the last ones to be paid,
which is not what the… the, uh…

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program was set up to do which was
set up to help the family farm,

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but Reagan’s farm policy helps
corporate farming, big business.

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And I’m a dissatisfied Republican
I guess you would say.

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When I grew up, whenever we came close to the
smell, I knew I was home. Everybody did.

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The problem is we have 31 waste disposal
sites already. And now they proposed to

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289 acre land of our
community, right here on 110.

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When we have the residential area
on 109, we have the school on 107.

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And I’m raising my children here. I
don’t want them to grow up and have

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some kind of incurable disease because
of the environment in which they live.

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You have some of the biggest companies out here.
They come in and make all kinds of money and leave,

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and I’d have to worry about cleaning it up. Our president
doesn’t consider. Uh… This a real major problem,

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but they’ve been beat before, and they’re
gonna be beat again by us. We’re gonna do it.

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The whole part of the government, the bags that they’re
supposed to protect our rights whether it’s women or…

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or workers or minorities is just falling apart.
That’s like an option we don’t have any more,

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going to the labor board,
going to EEOC. Right.

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So where do we go. We’re not going to the labor board. We’re not
going to Supreme Court. I mean as far as the company is a concern,

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Reagan is saying get away with as much as you
can, go as far as you can, we’ll back you.

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So it’s left up to the union
persons to do the own fighting.

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Under Reagan, back pay awards to women and
minorities were down 94%, and Reagan’s

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EEOC filed 60% fewer lawsuits for
discrimination than the Carter Administration.

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Hey, equal rights for women is unnatural.

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What is natural is men
wanting to protect women.

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Yeah, from earning too much money.

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Over 50% of American women are in the
workforce, and they’re there out of necessity

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not by choice or not there
because of some grand career,

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they’re out there because
money is survival.

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Hey, Syl? I read an article that said in the
future, men could actually bear children.

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I saw that. You know,
there’d be a lot of changes

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that men could have children. Oh yeah,
daycare centers would spring up overnight.

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A lot of homes now, the
woman is the breadwinner

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because the man cannot find a job. And they have enough
nerve to say in the news, employ… unemployment’s

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down to 7.5, that means so many
people found jabs. That’s not true,

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that just means their compensation ran out.
We have people calling the union office

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and the chief Stewards office like every day in
tears. Because they haven’t been called back,

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their unemployment’s run out, they can’t
get public aid. It’s just horrible.

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We had 2,800 people in 1979. We’ve got
1,800. Now tell me, 1,000 people,

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you know, almost a half of, uh… of the plant
gone somewhere, and that’s an economic recovery.

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It’s like 1984 doublespeak, you
point somebody who hates trees

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to the head of the environment, and somebody who hates
workers to the head of the, you know, Department of Labor.

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Do you believe in reverse discrimination?

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No, I believe in the Easter bunny.

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Well, in 1980, the Republican Party, my
party who… that all of us believed in

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the principles of choice and individual
rights decided in the Republican platform

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that they would renege on a 40 year
commitment, to the Equal Rights Amendment

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and asked for a constitutional amendment banning
abortion. And I just stood up in publicly,

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denounced that platform.
I felt that my party

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had an internal sickness, and was about
to bury the rights of 100 million

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American women under a heap of platitudes. And in fact,
that’s what they’ve been trying to do for 3.5 years.

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A White House spokesman said today
that just because the president

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removed three members of the Commission on civil
rights, doesn’t mean he’s against civil rights.

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He just has an image problem with civil
rights. Right, he can’t stand to see him.

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I knew Reagan from before, I know
what he was when he was governor,

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and I would have suspected that he would
do anything for the rich against the poor.

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[sil.]

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I’m getting old in America,
by Sylvia, page one.

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Best to do it somewhere else.

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My mother is paying an exorbitant
rate on supplemental insurance

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because Medicare is covering next to nothing
these days. Their biggest fear is that

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one of them will become desperately ill,
and it’s gonna wipe them out financially.

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My husband’s hospital bill was $25,896.97.

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Medicare paid $22,200.

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So I had, I’m still paying the balance.
I don’t feel that I should have to take

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my social security and my husband’s social
security to meet the bare necessities of life.

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And young people are frightened because they think
there’s not gonna be any social security or Medicare.

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Spray and wash gets out

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what America gets into.
Send some gel Salvador.

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I don’t think in Central America the
administration is really dealing

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with the… the social and economic
issues of the people there.

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They seem to have a one-track mind. They want to spend
so much on building bomb, bigger and better bombs.

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It takes a lot more people to build
a hospital or to repair the roads

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than it does to build a missile. And then, they finish
the missile, they stick it in the silo somewhere,

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and hopefully, they’ll never use it.
They only use it once. Right.

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If the women’s vote has a strong
part in any part of the selection,

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it’s gonna make a lot of men, and a lot of politicians
sit up and realize that we’re here to stay.

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We’ve always been here. They just
have never acknowledged at all,

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but at least they’re gonna realize that we are here, and we’ve
got a voice and we’ve got a mind and we’re gonna use it.

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In Mississippi, you did not have the privilege
to vote, if you lived on a plantation

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or if you lived on the
farm, uh… the land owner

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voted for everybody. So I
left Mississippi in 1957 and

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came to Chicago, and that was the first
thing I did is registered to vote.

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I didn’t vote. I really thought it
wasn’t gonna make. Well, first of all,

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I didn’t think Reagan was gonna get in. I
thought, umm… Carter would probably win again.

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I didn’t think it was gonna make much difference one way
other, and I just didn’t vote. And uh… I’ll tell you this,

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I’m definitely gonna vote this time. Your
vote is your… is your way of saying,

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\"This is how I want things to go.\" And everybody has their
chance to talk, and your vote is just your chance to talk.

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What I like about Reagan’s that he stepped
on everybody’s toes, he’s really a equal

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opportunity president when it comes to…
Right, when it comes to abusing people.

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He hurt us in the way that he’s putting
us down, he’s putting us down, and to me,

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for anybody to put me down, you have to fight me to
put me down. ‘Cause I’m not just gonna let you say,

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\"Well, you’re nobody. ‘Cause I’m gonna tell you, I’m somebody.
And I’m gonna try to knock you down before you knock me down.\"

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And how are you gonna do that? Well, let me try to get him
out office, number one. How are you gonna do that? Vote.

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And tell all your friends to vote. Please
do vote. Right. And tell her friends to…

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And so on, and so on, and so on, and so on…

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Okay, I’m going to vote.