Lindy Boggs Quotes

Lindy Boggs — American Politician born on March 13, 1916,

Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs, usually known as Lindy Boggs, was a United States political figure who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and later as United States Ambassador to the Holy See. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Louisiana. She was also a permanent chairwoman of the 1976 Democratic National Convention, which met in New York City to nominate the Carter-Mondale ticket. She was the first female to preside over a major party convention... (wikipedia)

As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function.

And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so.

So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.

I just didn't want to admit that he was dead.

It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.

Lindy Boggs Quotes

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