mr. albert said to me, well, this is just an unspoken rule. and then there were the whole problems of where are you going to stay and who's going to watch over you. heaven knows you're a girl and you can't possibly do that for yourself. now, i'm about to go off to college at university in the months down the road. so i already better be able to do that. my father was a little bit offended when they asked him to sign a release saying i was on my own recognizance, nobody was responsible for me, and they didn't ask the boy pages for any of that, either. so he was very upset with that. but i was already 18. so he was okay with that. we can go ahead with this. it was so great to get here. it was the summer of 1973. we had the watergate hearings. we were still dealing with vietnam, we were dealing with abortions and all that kind of stuff. and i came here from such a tiny little town in rural oklahoma, and here are these kids vying for newspapers in the cloak room. and i just -- my whole eyes were open to what an incredible new experience this was i

mr. albert flew into his office up here in the capitol building. and we happen to run into him and he invieted us to lunch. when we were at lunch, he was asking my sister and i what we thought about what we'd seen. i don't remember what my sister said. and i said why aren't there any girl pages. and he looks at me and says well, felda, i guess it's just an unspoken rule. and i said it's not fair and i would like to be a page. he says well, we'll look into it and we'll see what we can do. so i went back home and started writing letters, you know, and the first letter i got back was so exciting. all of this beautiful franking and it looks so important. and it was one of those lovely letters, thank you, but no thank you. we'll keep trying. but i did keep writing. and as the time neared for me to go to the university of oklahoma, my belief in it started to wane. i didn't begin to think it was really going to happen. and then i got a call from charlie ward in early mid may in '73 asking me if i wanted to be the first woman page. i said, well, you have t

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, '50s, pages and members conspired to play practical jokes on each other, incredible things.

mr. johnson... at the time he was president and there's the late speaker mccormick is there. the late hale boggs, congressman boggs and carl albertho is speaker at that time. mr. mccormick was then the whip, i believe. then there's george smathers who was then the senator from florida. there is the late hubert humphrey. and there is mike mansfield with his back turned and his head turned and mike was walking away. and that picture was given to senator mansfield by the late president kennedy who wrote on it something to the effect, "to mike mansfield who knows when to go." and so it looks as though mike is walking away from the center of conversation. c-span: who is the new arrival here in this picture? >> guest: well now that is the late senator dirksen. senator mansfield was the majority leader, senator dirksen was minority leader and dirksen was the greatest orator that i have ever heard in my time of capitol hill which spans now going on 37 years on capitol hill. martin dyes, the late martin dyes, representative in the house who was chairman of the unamerican activities committee was also a great orator. but there are those tw

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