Geraldine Ferraro Wasn’t the First
May I humbly suggest that your fact checkers missed the boat on the statement in “Coming Back” (Nov. 18): “On a hot summer night seven years ago, (Geraldine) Ferraro became the first woman in history to be nominated for the vice presidency.”
Ferraro was neither the first woman to be nominated by a political party nor the first to receive a vote in the Electoral College. Those honors belong to Toni Nathan, the vice presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party in 1972, 19 years ago. (The electoral vote, incidentally, came from a maverick Republican who couldn’t stomach another four years of Nixon.)
BOB BINSLEY
Santa Paula
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