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Female ex-candidate to 'protect' Hillary Clinton International News News Telegraph: "Female ex-candidate to 'protect' Hillary Clinton By Philip Sherwell in New York, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:16am BST 01/04/2007 The first woman to run on a US presidential ticket has promised her friend Hillary Clinton that she will help her fight Republican 'dirty tricks' in the race for the White House. 'The only thing that can stop Hillary becoming the next president would be smears and dirty tricks,' said Geraldine Ferraro, the Democrats' losing 1984 vice-presidential candidate. 'I've told her I'll go anywhere and speak any time to make sure that doesn't happen.' High-profile women like Geraldine Ferraro are backing Hillary Clinton’s White House bid She outlined her plans for a display of female solidarity with the Democratic presidential frontrunner last week in an interview in her office overlooking Ground Zero, where the World Trade Centre once stood in lower Manhattan. Miss Ferraro, 71, now the managing director of a large corporate public relations and consultancy firm, has joined the former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright and Billie Jean King, the former tennis star, in a 'rapid rebuttal force' of well-known women on standby to defend and promote Sen Clinton's candidacy."