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FDIC state profile, Utah.
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ISSN: 19421931 Year: 2007 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : [Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.]

Madame Chair : A Political Autobiography of an Unintentional Pioneer
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ISBN: 0874216664 0874216613 9780874216660 9780874216615 Year: 2007 Publisher: Logan : Utah State University Press,

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Jean Westwood called herself an unintentional pioneer. Although she worked hard to achieve what she did, she did not actively seek or expect to reach what was arguably the most powerful political position any American woman had ever held, chair of the national Democratic Party. A Utah national committeewoman and member of the reform committee that reorganized the party, Westwood answered George McGovern's call to lead his presidential campaign. In the dramatic year of 1972, she became "chairman" of the party, McGovern lost in a landslide, Nixon was reelected, and a covert operatio

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