Conference noted::sf

668.0. "Heinlein's A Bathroom of Her Own" by TARKIN::WISMAR (Konnichi wa.) Wed Aug 10 1988 14:43

    I looked for a good topic to put this in, rather than starting one,
    but wasn't terribly successful.
    
    At some point a few years ago, I read this story:
    
    There was a woman who was running for office, against an incumbent
    who was backed by the local "organization."  The man who helped
    her came up with an ingenious advertising campaign, such that it
    looked as though the incumbant were really a terrible person. (He
    was....)  
    For example, the ones that come to mind were a billboard, with a
    bad picture of the incumbent, and the slogan, "A Woman's Place is
    in the Home," and decals that these people went around and stuck
    on the windows of peoples' cars that said "Keep America Beautiful."
    
    Needless to say, they made this poor guy out as a real creep, and
    won the election.  All in all it was an amusing story, which has
    been driving me nuts, since I can't find it....
    
    Anyway, I have no idea what this story was, or where I found it,
    except that it runs in my mind that it was Heinlein, since I remember
    that I read it between reading "TRhe Door into Summer," and "The
    Puppet Masters."  
    
    If anyone has any idea what I'm talking about, can you help?
    Thanx in advance...
                                                             -John.

The short you're looking for is "A Bathroom of Her Own".  It appears in 
Heinlein's _Expanded_Universe_.

Ray

    	I know it was written by Heinlein, but it does not sound like
    an SF or even a fantasy story to me.
    
    	Larry
    

    re .-2
    Thanx...  I'll look it up.
    
    re .-1
    I know.  It isn't.  But it ran in my mind that it was Heinlein,
    and I figured this was the place to ask, if it were!
    
                                                                 -John.