Judy Agnew, Wife of Vice President, Dies at 91
... “I don’t take stands on anything,” she said in an interview with Parade magazine in 1970. “I stay out of the political end of it. When people ask what I majored in, I proudly tell them — ‘I majored in marriage.’ ”
She did have opinions, however, and they occasionally slipped out. She rejected feminism as “silly,” saying she was already liberated. She told The New York Times that she had “no use” for hippies, “although I don’t know any, really” ...
... In an interview with Parade magazine, Mrs. Agnew said her father, who had a Ph.D. in chemistry, thought a college education was wasted on women. Judy did not disagree, and took a job for $11 a week as a file clerk at the Maryland Casualty Company ...
McCall’s reported that it did not faze her when a feminist wrote to tell her that she had “set Women’s Lib back a hundred years” ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/us/judy-agnew-wife-of-vice-president-dies-at-91.html?_r=1
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