1967 GOP WOMEN ELECTION LISTED FRANCIS MILLER VINTAGE PHOTO LIFE MAGAZINE RARE

Verlag: 1950-Now

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Framing: Unframed An original period photo, possibly a proof photo, measuring approximately 13 1/4 x 9 inches. By listed Life Photographer Francis Miller. Last found in Washington, DC, in all likelihood from Mr. Miller's estate. Some bends, creases, here and there, some as seen in pictures. Thanks for looking. Below is some background of the political climate at that time taken from Catherine E. Rymph, Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage Through the Rise of the New Right by Leon Ginsberg ??The author suggests that there were and continue to be various dichotomies among the women in the Party. She describes the National Federation of Republican Women, and women Republican Party officials, whom she calls Party women. Party women, she notes, were "often unmarried, used politics as a career, and were in some cases paid for their work" (p. 3). Clubwomen, active in the Federation, were volunteers. However, there were great conflicts beginning in the 1960s about the principles that women's efforts should support. So the other dichotomy was between Republican women feminists and liberals and Republican women who were antifeminists and conservatives. Perhaps the turning point, the author notes, came in 1967 when, for the first time, the presidency of the National Federation of Republican Women was contested. Usually, a nominating committee's recommendations were ratified at the conventions of the Federation. However, in 1967, after the 1964 lopsided defeat of the Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater by Lyndon B. Johnson, "the Party regular" Republican women and a group of insurgents battled for the presidency of the Federation. The leader of the insurgents was Phyllis Schlafly, then and now a strong supporter of conservative positions, who opposed the nominating committee candidate, Gladys O'Donnell. O'Donnell was elected with 56 percent of the convention delegates but Schlafly and her point of view largely prevailed over the future of the Party. Schlafly was the author, in 1964, of A Choice Not an Echo, a strongly conservative political book that voiced opposition to Democrats and their policies. Republicans, Schafly argued, should not echo the more liberal positions that were espoused by Democrats and were the prevailing philosophy of the more liberal wing of the Republicans. Instead, the Party should pursue conservative policies. In some ways, the Goldwater candidacy and Schlafly's book set the agenda for the New Right. Schlafly and her supporters were opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment, which had initially been supported by many Republicans as well as Democrats but which ultimately failed to be ratified. ??When Francis Miller was about twelve years old he got his first camera, a Brownie, and began developing his films in the family bathtub. He studied journalism at the University of Texas, was sports editor of the Daily Texan, a college newspaper, and managing editor of the Texas comic monthly, The Texas Ranger. He studied art in the Chicago Academy in the summers. In 1927 when he was twenty-one, he went to work for the Houston Press as a combination artist, reporter and photographer. He had only dabbled in photography, but as a reporter he soon learned that the camera can tell a story better than words, so he became a pioneer in candid news photography. As a reporter covering the southwest, Miller was a journalistic jack-of-all-trades, writing news stories, taking the pictures for them and often making the layouts. He also drew cartoons, wrote a biography of W. Lee O'Daniel, which was a Texas best seller when O'Daniel became governor of the state, and published numerous short stories. Miller was the first to cover a Caesarian birth fully with pictures for the press, which, when published, attracted much attention, and then was finally used in TIME, before the advent of LIFE Magazine. 'Nig' (Francis' nickname) Miller freelanced for LIFE before the war and became a LIFE staff photographer in. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 63907-474

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Titel: 1967 GOP WOMEN ELECTION LISTED FRANCIS ...

Verlag: 1950-Now

Einband: Softcover

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