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BY DAVID GAUTHIER-VILLARS AND MAX COLCHESTER

PARIS—Leading French Socialists said their party should give Dominique Strauss-Kahn a chance to compete in next year’s presidential election after serious holes appeared in the sexual-assault case against the former International Monetary Fund chief.

Socialist Party leader and presidential candidate Martine Aubry declared her “immense joy” and said she hoped Mr. Strauss-Kahn would soon emerge “from this nightmare.”

The French, however, appeared split as to whether they wanted Mr. Strauss-Kahn—who on Friday was released from house arrest in a lower Manhattan townhouse—to again play a role in domestic politics.

Asked whether they wished Mr. Strauss-Kahn to return to France’s political …

By STEPHEN MILLER

In 1984, the Democratic Party nominee for vice president was Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to appear on the presidential ballot for a major political party.

Geraldine Ferraro, the former New York congresswoman who made history as the first woman to run for vice president on a major U.S. party ticket, died Saturday from blood cancer, her family said. She was 75. Video courtesy of Fox News.

Ms. Ferraro, who died Saturday at age 75 of multiple myeloma, wasn’t much help that year to the Democratic ticket, headed by Minnesota senator Walter Mondale. The Democrats went down to defeat in 49 of 50 states, including Ms. Ferraro’s native New York. And she failed to garner a larger women’s vote than President Carter had four years earlier.

Her confident campaigning set a precedent that a woman could credibly campaign for one of the highest offices in the land. But it was a quarter century before women would once again mount White House runs.

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Democratic Vice President Candidate Geraldine Ferraro in July 1984.

In the 2008 election, Ms. Ferraro was a senior fundraiser in Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the Democratic nomination. But Ms. Ferraro resigned after being quoted attributing his popularity to the press’s infatuation with the idea of a black man running for high office.

“If he was a woman — of any color — he would not be in this position,” Ms. Ferraro said.

It was a typically brash if puzzling remark from Ms. Ferraro, whose nomination for vice-president was inspired at least as much by her gender as by her accomplishments in three terms in Congress.

Geraldine Anne Ferraro was born in Newburgh, N.Y., where her father ran a restaurant and a bar called the Roxy Club. When Ms. Ferraro was 9, her father died of a heart attack shortly after he was indicted for running a numbers racket at a five-and-dime store he also owned.

The family relocated to the Bronx, where her mother worked as a seamstress, sewing beads and sequins on fancy dresses. Ms. Ferraro skipped grades in school, attended college on a scholarship, and then studied law at night while teaching elementary school. She married John Zaccaro, a realtor, and raised three kids in Kew Gardens, Queens, while practicing law part-time.

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Ms. Ferraro started out in public service as an assistant district attorney in Queens, N.Y., appointed in 1974 by her cousin, district attorney Nicholas Ferraro. She helped set up a special victims bureau and concentrated on sex crimes and violence against children and the elderly. She had a hard-nosed reputation.

In 1978, she won election to Congress, running under the slogan “Finally, a tough Democrat.” The White House took a special interest in the race, sending the President’s mother, Lillian Carter, to campaign alongside Ms. Ferraro.

In Congress, she was a protégé of House Speaker Tip O’Neill and exercised increasing influence in the party while being reelected in 1980 and 1982. She was deputy national chairman of President Carter’s reelection committee in 1980, and served on the House Budget Committee. In 1984, she was named to head the platform committee for the Democratic National Convention.

Her selection as vice-presidential nominee was meant as a game-changer in an election where the Democrats lagged badly. President Ronald Reagan was well ahead in the polls.

Ms. Ferraro proved a game campaigner, and duked it out with Vice President George Bush in a debate remembered most strongly for a remark Mr. Bush’s wife, Barbara, made in the days leading up to it. Asked to describe Ms. Ferraro, Ms. Bush said, “I can’t say it, but it rhymes with ‘rich.’”

But sex proved less of an issue in the election than Ms. Ferraro’s personal finances, including her husband’s tax returns. Mr. Zaccaro was eventually sentenced to community service for misstating his personal wealth when applying for a loan.

On election day, voters went for the Republican ticket by a 59-41 percent spread, including 55 percent of female voters, and a 525 – 13 electoral vote margin, the largest in history.

Although out of Congress, Ms. Ferraro campaigned for female Democratic candidates, and in 1992 attempted to engineer a political comeback by challenging Republican Senator Alfonse D’Amato. She lost in the primary. Later, she floated campaigns for mayor of New York City and governor of New York state, but found little traction. She officially retired from politics in 1998.

Ms. Ferraro worked as cohost of CNN’s “Crossfire” and continued to be in demand as a political commentator, and took a visible role in the 2008 Presidential election. While supporting Ms. Clinton’s campaign (she eventually endorsed Mr. Obama), Ms. Ferraro criticized press scrutiny of the Republican nominee for Vice-President, Sarah Palin, the first woman on a presidential ticket since herself.

“I want her to do well,” Ms. Ferraro said of Ms. Palin, on an interview on NBC’s “Today.” “I think when a woman stands up there, it’s important for little girls to see someone there who can stand toe to toe with the guy who’s been in the Senate for 38 years and running for vice president.”

Addressing a symposium on women and the Constitution in 2008, she added, “Every time a woman runs, women win.”

Write to Stephen Miller at stephen.miller@wsj.com

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Some guru sells his program because he has 60 ways of marketing. One Dentist was asked about his marketing he said he had 100 ways and use them all. Well I came up with 66 so far. I will work on more sometime after tax season or you can email me with ones I might have missed.

The true is you can’t use them all. Some are too costly for many of us. Some won’t work. Try as many as you like and find the ones that work and work them till they stop working or you stop working, whichever comes first.

Here they are:

1. Direct to Consumers
2. Party plan
3. Rack Jobbers
4. Wholesalers
5. Mail Order House
6. Resident Buyers
7. Fairs and Exposition
8. Chain Stores
9. Discount Stores
10. Lease Departments
11. Supermarkets
12. Free Publicity
13. Sales People
14. Franchising
15. Co Party
16. U.S. Government
17. Direct Mail
18. Co-op Mailing
19. Trade shows
20. Advertising Specialties
21. PX’s
22. Premiums
23. Classifieds:
24. In Papers
25. In Magazine
26. On the net
27. In Special papers
28. Articles
29. Ezine
30. Emails
31. Sig files
32. Radio
33. Television
34. Seminars (paid to You)
35. Bill Boards
36. Flyers
37. Brochures
38. Seminars you give free
39. Telephone
40. Referrals
41. E.books
42. Free Search Engines
43. Paid Search Engines
44. Post cards
45. Yellow Page ad
46. Cross Selling with others
47. Joint Ventures
48. Telemarketing
49. Take out Boxes with ads on
50. Posters
51. Booth at Mails or stand at mall
52. Man or Women with sign about your business
53. Window Display
54. Outside Signs
55. Articles for directories on the net
56. Free downloads with ads about your business products or services
57. Free Recording
58. Free Video
59. Free CD
60. Free Report
61. Free Samples
62. Special Events
63. Contests and Sweepstakes
64. Column in a Newspaper
65. Editorial writing by you
66. Free Phone Messages

Let me know at Joetrevis@aol.com if you would like me to explain any of these in a report that your interest in. It will be at least 2 pages with a lot of information.