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From: U.S. News & World Report
Date: 19850520
Author:Gergen, David R.

"Washington," Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., once lamented, "is full of famous men and the women they married when they were young."

Perhaps that was true in her day, but no longer. Many of the women married to the power brokers in today's capital are bright and sophisticated, as eager to reshape the world as their husbands.

Consider two who are married to men highly ranked in this year's survey of "Who runs America": Susan Baker, wife of the Treasury Secretary, and Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Gore, wife of the junior senator from Tennessee.

They are among the leaders ...

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