Republican women established Kitchen Kabinets, appointing a female equivalent to every member of the president’s cabinet, who shared “political recipes on GOP accomplishments with the housewives in the nation” by way of monthly bulletins on “What’s Cooking in Washington.”84 As a senator speaking to the federation of women’s clubs suggested, the elephant was the right symbol for the GOP because an elephant has “a vacuum cleaner in front and a rug beater behind.”
