well, then 1973 we got ari taylor, the first african-american woman in the legislature who was terrific and that was to build to 1974 when all of us came back and got elected again and dick lamb got elected governor and hear tart o the senate and -- in any state after the civil war. it's pretty amazing this state did all of that. when you think of that and that narrow little window of time, we were pushing the spoon off the edge. boom. the rumble from the rockies became a roar. and all sorts of people were coming down saying what is going on. and i always said that maybe people aren't good hokey pokey player, we put our whole self-in or don't bother. we want to do all these things. when i got to d.c. with this whole area of women and where we were, i got to d.c. and of course, they were more shocked than anybody that i was elected when we would go places, they would try to swear jim in. they would say, her, what's wrong with you? and i remember one of the days that i shook my head and said why in the world am i here? they gave a committee dealing with commemorative days and holidays and

then 1973, we got arie taylor, the first african-american woman in the legislature, who was terrific. that was just a build to 1974. when all of us came back, got elected again, and dick lamb got elected governor, and hart got to go to the senate, and warren took on brochman, and george brown became the first african-american elected statewide in any state after the civil war. so it's pretty amazing that this state did all of that. when you think about that, and you think about that narrow little window of time, we were pushing the spoon right off the edge, boom. and so the rumble from the rockies became a roar. and all sorts of people were coming out here saying, what is going on? i always say that

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