of running in those shoes and having terrible, terrible blisters, mary ward, who is charlie's wife, charlie ward was mr. albert's administrative assistant and i stayed with them for the first couple weeks while i was here. i would come home with these horrible feet. one day she showed up with shoes that were ugly crepe and i kissed her. thank you. literally, we were walking everywhere. our feet were miserably, horribly tired. and it was. we were physically walking all over the place. in the mornings, we would put the congressional record into the folder, a thick document, put it under the seat, and after that, the day began. we didn't know where we would be, but one of the nice things was going into all of the members of congress's offices and meeting people and knowing this office is going to look like this. and it was decorated to their state's themes. it was a good experience to get to know the people who worked in those offices. it was a great experience. yeah, we did a lot of running. >> i would say, too, you mentioned the level of mischief in congress. in the 1800s and certainly into the 1900s, '30s, '40s,