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It was an election year—Maryland. I believe he died on a Tuesday evening. 

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The governor at that time was Blair Lee—came to see me on Thursday and asked me if they could put my name forth. The primary had transpired. 

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The night Goodloe died, I could hear people in my house, on the first floor, saying, "Well, we'll get a real candidate to run for this slot."

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Because the attorney general in Maryland had looked at it and stated that 

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the central committee would have the authority to nominate somebody to replace Goodloe on the ballot. 

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And, but it had to be a duly constituted meeting of the central committee. Well, we had a new central committee for the state.

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They were having their first meeting on Friday of that week, and so the governor came and asked if I would put my name forward. 

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And I thought, "Oh, I can't possibly do that." 

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My two sons who, at that time, were twenty—22 and 23—said, "She'll run." 

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And I said, "Oh, I can't do that." They said, "Yes, she will. Don't pay any attention to her." 

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So, the governor left. My name was presented to the central committee on Friday night, and Saturday morning, I had become a

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a widow, a single parent of a very expensive 13-year-old, a candidate for Congress. And it all transpired very, very quickly.