The women's movement was just coming into being, and I got involved with Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug and all these great women. We then got involved with Carter, who was running for president, and we created the first International Women's Conference or the National Women's Conference for Carter.
I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.
After '45, Ben Gurion started to organize the Zionist movement and the conference in Baltimore. At this convention, they decided that the helm of the Zionist movement has to be a Jewish commonwealth... a Jewish commonwealth!
I think it's a really big deal to be able to meet people outside the context of something like a conference room or someplace where everything feels like it's formal talk.
In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.
Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.
