The Senator felt like DC was becoming dangerous when she left. Seems like she just wanted to be a private citizen after serving.

And I remember Margaret Chase Smith, I met her when I was a kid, had some political figures in the family, some in the judicial realm so gatherings included some interesting guests.

Her 'Sense of the Senate' speech was a Hall of Congressional Fame moment.

Fifth grade without knowing about that. She was also something of a model for women in Congress. And Bella Abzug.



We could do with a few of these types nowadays.

And what states will treat them as Americans with full rights to their body autonomy?

Was in Margret Chase Smith elementary. She would stop by occasionally and visit.

I think I met her at a couple campaign house parties, like at a clam bake or something. One of my cousins was involved in the Maine Supreme Court and I think she came to some event when he was appointed or elected, can't recall which, I was a kid.

But recall meeting her. I went to Nathaniel Hawthorne School but that guy never showed up. It was half a block away from a house that Harriet Beecher Stowe lived in, tough.

New England has some of the richest history in the country.

By now she must be pretty old.