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It was a lady from Montana—Jeannette Rankin.

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She voted against war. She was a strict pacifist.

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She voted against World War I because she felt that way

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and then she didn’t run at that time, one term,

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and then all of those years up until World War II was declared,

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she was elected again for one term and she voted against it.

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And, I remember this vividly because she was down in the front

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row of the chamber, which was right in front of me,

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and she was crying like a baby. And, Everett Dirksen,

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who she admired, and who was a dear friend of mine, too,

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came down, put his arm around her, and tried to get her—

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because he told me that he tried to vote present,

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but she would not vote present, she voted against the war.