Geraldine Ferraro died this morning.

In 1982 I went to work as a Congressional intern for Gerry. I was a naive 19 year old with ideas that I could change the world. There's only a few things I remember from the internship. I remember placing a potential bill in the hopper. The bill was to exclude perfume samples from import taxes. Another was the brilliance of the Library of Congress. It was before the internet and B&N on every corner. I remember needing a hamantashin recipe and the LOC sent a few to me.

When she was selected as Mondale's running mate, I wrote an Op-ed piece in Newsday. It ran on Monday, July 23, 1984 in the As I See It column. I managed to find the yellowed and brittle newspaper piece.
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