WASHINGTON — 'I could smell the gunpowder.'
By the fall of 1978, Feinstein — who had served as a San Francisco city supervisor since 1969 — had lost two mayoral elections, in 1971 and 1975. She had recently returned from a trip to Nepal, where she had gotten sick. She was president of the Board of Supervisors, but the position offered no obvious path to greater influence or power.
Ill-tempered to begin with, White had been especially enraged because Mayor George Moscone would not allow him to retake the Board of Supervisors seat he had resigned from earlier that month. He also held a political grudge against Harvey Milk, the gay rights icon and city supervisor who had become the conservative White’s political nemesis.
Moments later, she emerged to tell reporters of the two slayings White had committed. Because Moscone was now dead and she was the board president, she had just become the first woman to lead San Francisco.Feinstein would remain mayor throughout the devastating AIDS years.
a response by voters to what many saw as the Senate Judiciary Committee's unfair treatment of Anita Hill, who had alleged sexual misconduct by Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.
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