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Dennis Duggan

Dennis Duggan Dennis Duggan

Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday

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Right up to the last call from Walter Mondale - Fritz, as

she calls him - Geraldine Ferraro didn't think much of her chances of becoming

the first and only woman nominated by a major party to run on its presidential

ticket.

She had said as much in that clear Queens voice of hers at a National

Women's Political caucus in 1983, a year before she became Mondale's choice.

"There...

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