he went to margaret chase smith and asked if she would mind not attending. she said, of course i would mind. prescott bush had to go back to burning tree and ask to allow one woman in for one dinner if she promises to leave as soon as the desert is over. -- dessert that's exactly what they did. donald: they don't allow women to play, only in the gift shop. raymond: even in the clip we just saw, margaret was wearing a rose. that was her brand. she always wrote -- she always wore a french rose. she introduced a bill at one point to make the rose and national flower. it became quite a show. dirksen was from illinois and he wanted the marigold to be the national flower. he would get up in his eloquent manner and say all the beauty of the marigold far outweighs that of a mere rose. they would play that game for the longest time. they were good friends. that was a nice bit of humanity on the floor of the senate. brian: how many women are there today? donald: there are 20. brian: what is your sense of women who are now members? donald: there has been a big change.

mine is margaret chase smith. she was the first woman to serve in both houses of congress.for the president in 1964. she was put on the party's nomination but of course she didn't make it. who is yours? >> i think sandra day o'connor, first woman to be appointed to the supreme court. although somebody pointed out to me today she is still with us. time for her still to embarass herself. i trust her to get through the rest of life to be okay. david: scott, who would you put on there? >> somebody unfortunately not with us. harriet tubman. civil rights activist and helped john brown in harper's ferry and especially given what is going on in our country between races. >> matt, definitely. >> if we have fiat currencies, cat necessary dean from "the hunger games." david: what a great idea. >> pointing arrow at washington, d.c. and overlords. david: you picked my favorite movie. it is libertarian movie. melissa and i agree on this, alexander hamilton was extraordinary personality. created u.s. treasury. i think the smartest of all the founding fathers. maybe not the best leader but

i sat to my commencement address back in 1970 at a delphi university, listening to senator margaret chase smith republican senator from maine i wondered if i would be sent to fight in vietnam a war i opposed with most of the class sitting around me that day. i ended up not being drafted, and instead said on an academic and government career. and little did i know that 20 years later i would begin nearly a decade of leadership in the army, fighting wars in iraq and afghanistan, and working to put into effect the most sweeping policy changes since the truman administration desegregation of the force. and in our case it was the end of the policy of don't ask don't tell with respect to the gays in the military and the policy to allow women to serve in combat roles. when i graduate from college i could not have imagined a vicious act of terrorism the bombing of the murrah federal building in oklahoma city 20 years ago this year and the subsequent attack on 9/11. i would not have predicted that in 2008 we would endure the worst global financial crisis since the great depression of the 1930s. and i ce

that freshman senator was margaret chase smith of main. i got to know her after she left in the 1980's and 1990's in maine before we lost her in 1995. she told me about that speech. the speech was about the dangers to the country and particularly to this institution of the practices of joseph mccarthy of the smear campaigns, of the innuendo, of the threats. and her speech took enormous courage. she told me two stories about the speech that i think are interesting that i want to note before i go on to the implications of that speech for what we're can -- what we're considering today. one was she said that as she had the speech in her hand and got on the little trolley to come from the russell building over here -- at that time the russell building was the only senate office building -- who should be sitting in the trolley in the seat next to her but joe mccarthy. senator smith sat down and mccarthy said what are you up to today margaret? she told me she responded i'm about to make a speech, joe and you're not going to like it. and she went