"Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels."
After Richards lost the race to serve a second-term as Texas governor, someone asked her what she might have done differently had she known she was going to be a one-term governor, she grinned and said:
"Oh, I would probably have raised more hell."
“I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.”
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Texas State Library
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