Patsy Schroeder, back in the day of the “Fightertown Follies,” thought the military was a 9 - 5 job, and therefore women could serve in capacities other than the “traditional” secretarial/admin type.
How is that working out for us?
She was #2 on the House Military Affairs Committee (now Armed Services).
In speeches she pronounced Nuclear as "noo-kee-ler". I cringed each time I heard that, and was grateful she didn't represent *my* district. (But since I lived in Boulder, represented by carpetbagger Tim Wirth(less), she wouldn't have been much worse).
She would have been the next Chair if Newt hadn't ruined the Democrats' big party by leading the GOP takeover in '94.
I remember guffawing at her TV ads during her 1st election in '70 or '72, because they were 100% image & 0% substance. They looked exactly like those old Breck commercials of a woman running in slo-mo towards the camera with the long hair slowly flouncing up & down. The camera panned from a typical Colorado high country mountain backdrop down to a hillside of wildflowers that she was running through. It was sooooo stupid, but in retrospect it probably convinced most Colorado female voters in her district to pull the lever for her.