“…Before I came to Congress, I was active in the Democratic Party. I was Chair of the California Democratic Party. And we were trying to get the Democratic Convention in San Francisco. So, the group came to see our bid and all of that. And a woman who was a Member of Congress, and really a mother to us all in Congress, Lindy Boggs of Louisiana, she was on the Selection Committee. I knew her. Her husband and my father served together in the ‘40s in Congress. And I knew her…”