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Show Congres s p By FRANCES P. BOLTON with Flora Rheta Schreiber U.1 lapwMntaliv - from Ohio ' -- v- widow refused to "wait for old age" middle-age- d spanning from FDR to LBJ managed to get into the House visitors' gallery. We had just stood for a vote when the "fireworks'7 started. I wish you could have' seen those Congressmen trying to them squeeze under: the tables.Most-o- f were" too large to make it, and I laughed. "Get down," one colleague yelled. "Be quiet," I said. I remained standing and a bullet whizzed past my ear. other Congressman shouted as he pushed me through the door. To say it was exciting would be a vast understatement I have known many moments of pride duringmy tenurebut two incidents stand apart from all the rest. One was when Oliver joined me in the Congress, and we became the first mother n legislative, team in Congressional history. During Ollie's three terms in the House, our relationship was highly professional, and it was one time when a mother and son could vote against each - and-so- ( - other and get away with it, as we did. A second source of great personal grat- ification occurred when I had the privilege of seconding Sen. Margaret Chase Smith's (R.,Maine) nomination for the Presidency during the 1964 Republican Convention.. Margaret and I came to the Congress around the same time and under the same circumstances. Her husband had died three weeks after mine, and she, too, had been elected to fill out his term. to marvelous have a is It job as thrillto to do it, health have the as mine, ing and I hope a little more judgment than At the beginniBgTwo years ago, when I celebrated my 25th year in the Congress, I told my colleagues: "What I appreciate most is that you have ceased to think of me only as a woman in Congress. Now, I am just one of the boys !" It is my fervent wish to continue serving in the House of Representatives and to remain "just one of the boys." v.. IV "' D C ft 0 n Oliver Bolton served in Congress with hit mother for six years. 0 III (fisKHfiflH Kf& flam :iig (Kuuu flsun sraiTG 'hill C?' I I ria. . . mm Zlflvll- - tMHNiiHtj4lfWiMllaMi x ... |