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She did not talk extensively with me on her time in the House because I don't think it ever occurred to her that I might be in the House.

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She served for, I think, year and a half. Her husband, who was a Member of the House, died in a tragic aviation accident, with Eddie Rickenbacker going into

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Mount Story outside of Atlanta on his way to a—no, at that point in time, it was not the Armed Services Committee, 

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it was the Military Affairs Committee. And he was a member of that on his way down to, to—I think they were going to Mexico. 

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She did not at all describe her—her, her race she described, which she was a widow, with five children. She campaigned. 

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It was back in the days when the smoke-filled backroom would make the decisions on who was going to be the nominee,

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or who was going to take his place in Congress. She was selected. She campaigned in widow's garb: the black dress, the black veil.

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A different time, it was 1941. And so, she served for one, one, not quite a full term.

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But she was told, told by the same people in the backroom with the smoke-filled that there was another candidate that was going to run, and, and did.

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And so, she served only one term.