I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Ted Kennedy and my old boss, Bill Hathaway, and Walter Mondale.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.
I've been interested in American politics since I was eight. That was in 1968. It was an interesting year. I was a huge Eugene McCarthy supporter, so I guess he was the first senator I really knew about and cared about.
I served in the state Senate for six years with retiring Gov. John Lynch. During that time, we had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country.
In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.
I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.
I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.
Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
I also served on many government committees.
I worked in the Clinton administration.