EDGAR BERMAN
(Edgar F. Berman)
Berman was referring to a letter Mink had written to Hubert Humphrey asking him to have Berman removed from the Commission on Party Structure and Delegate Selection of the Democratic Party. That letter stemmed from an incident that occurred at a Committee on National Priorities of the Democratic Policy Council meeting in April, 1970, in which Berman and Mink had gotten into a spat over the role of women. Berman had insulted Mink by claiming that women should not hold presidential and decision-making positions because of “hormonal influences.”
Edgar F. Berman was an American surgeon and author. He is most remembered for his 1970 assertion that women were unable to hold leadership positions due to their "raging hormonal imbalances". He also implanted a plastic esophagus into a person and performed a heart transplant for a dog.