this is when in 1984, as soon as mondale announced for geraldine ferraro would be sharing with him. "newsweek" ran a 25 page special report documenting all aspects of how mondale popped the questions that frosted blonde. to be fair, the hokey references to the candidate and the gender anxiety didn't begin and end with the press, but were shared by politicians and the american public. on the campaign choke him in taking for, for our separate from the mississippi agriculture commissioner that her blueberry muffin capabilities with a shirt not for balancing feminism and femininity, for over a probably not a female vice presidential candidate before. so i go on to talk about the 84 campaign and ferraro's role in it. and as i'm sort of semi-not the aftermath, i felt urged some of the meaning it had really for the women that have been supporters as well as a couple republican women and that was one of my techniques that i try to find letters from what most of us would consider contemporary speak, sort of red state women, more conservative parts of the country to sort of make the case that

he had a debate with geraldine ferraro, the democratic nominee for vice presidents. in the debate ferrara said that he had no idea when normal people were going through because his wealth and so it is him from normal life. so mrs. bush was on the campaign trail, the campaign airplane the next day. she was talking to reporters. she was obviously really unhappy about that comment. she said, well, you know, geraldine ferraro and her husband, they probably have more money than george bush. they could probably buy and sell george bush. then she said, and i can say with that woman is, but it rhymes with which. i'm sorry. i can say what that woman is but it rhymes with which. so the reporters looked at each other. and i'm sure they ran for the telephones. by the time they landed the comment was all over. it happened to be helene. so the reporters said to her when she landed the next stop, did you mean, you know, that it rhymes with -- and i said i would never say that she is a rich. now, some of the reporters that i have spoken to in years after said they thought that it wa

stop, did you mean, you know, that it rhymes with rich, and she said i would never say that geraldine ferraro is and which. dash is a witch. as a poster that some of the reporters that i spoke to disasters -- spoke two years after they said they thought it was a preconceived comment, that it had been planned that mrs. bush was too much of a political professional to say something like that, to reporters. and not understand its implications. they thought she meant to get in a jacket she got in the jeb but then she had something to retreat into, so that was the comment. but interestingly it follows her to this day. yes, ma'am. >> how was she as a mother, especially to laura bush? >> how is she as a mother law, especially to laura bush. okay, let's see, i think that she's trying to have cordial relations with all of her children. i've been told from time to time that the two of them have a respectful but somewhat distant relationship. i cannot attest to that myself. there's a story, and again, i don't know if it is apocryphal or true, apocryphal or not, that when laura bush was first brought up