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Remarks During a Meeting With Representative Corinne C. Boggs of Louisiana.

March 27, 1973

WELL, I WANT to say while you are here--as Mrs. Boggs was saying--this is a sad day in a way, but also a very happy day because all of the family is here to see you sworn into Congress.

And I suppose many will interpret her victory and also her service as simply the fact that she was the wife of the prominent majority leader of Congress, and that because of that and only because of that, she is here.

However, those of us who know her, as I know her, my wife knows her, we have had the privilege of traveling with her on several occasions, she is here in her own right as well. I think her husband would have said that she, on her own, belongs in the Congress of the United States. And I speak in a completely bipartisan way when I say I hope she stays a long time.

REPRESENTATIVE BOGGS. Thank you, Mr. President, so much.

THE PRESIDENT. If I move to Louisiana, I might--I will vote for you. [Laughter]

REPRESENTATIVE BOGGS. That is wonderful. Thank you so much, Mr. President.

THE PRESIDENT. What I meant is that you made it on your own. That is the point.

REPRESENTATIVE BOGGS. Thank you very much.

Note: The exchange of remarks began at 3 p.m. in the Oval Office at the White House where the President was meeting with Mrs. Boggs.

On March 20, 1973, Mrs. Boggs was elected to succeed her late husband, Representative Hale Boggs, House majority leader, who was lost with Representative Nick Begich of Alaska on an airplane flight in Alaska, October 15, 1972.

Richard Nixon, Remarks During a Meeting With Representative Corinne C. Boggs of Louisiana. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/256281

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