Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.

George [Mitchell] introduced the idea that we'd go on a retreat [and] to really regularize caucuses. He's the one who had I think [Tom] Daschle become the Democratic Policy Committee chairman, so I think it lived through with Tom.

The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.

I think George Mitchell believed in promoting women.

Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.

I think, though, with that whole sense of integrity and a lot of things that have been going on, the shared leadership rather than the titular head.

I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.