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Austin,
Texas - She was so generous with her responses to other people. If you told
Ann Richards something really funny, she wouldn't just smile or laugh, she
would stop and break up completely. She taught us all so much -- she was a
great campfire cook. Her wit was a constant delight. One night on the river
on a canoe trip, while we all listened to the next rapid, which sounded like
certain death, Ann drawled, "It sounds like every whore in El Paso just
flushed her john."She knew how to deal with teenage egos: Instead of pointing out to a kid who was pouring charcoal lighter on a live fire that he was idiot, Ann said, "Honey, if you keep doing that, the fire is going to climb right back up to that can in your hand and explode and give you horrible injuries, and it will just ruin my entire weekend."
She knew what it was like to have four young children and to be so tired you cried while folding
the laundry. She knew and valued Wise Women like
Virginia Whitten and Helen Hadley.At a long-ago political do at Scholz Garten in Austin, everybody who was anybody was there meetin' and greetin' at a furious pace. A group of us got the tired feet and went to lean our butts against a table at the back wall of the bar. Perched like birds in a row were Bob Bullock, then state comptroller, moi, Charles Miles, the head of Bullock's personnel department, and Ms. Ann Richards. Bullock, 20 years in Texas politics, knew every sorry, no good sumbitch in the entire state. Some old racist judge from East Texas came up to him, "Bob, my boy, how are you?"
Bullock said, "Judge, I'd like you to meet my friends: This is Molly Ivins with the Texas Observer."
The judge peered up at me and said, "How yew, little lady?"
Bullock, "And this is Charles Miles, the head of my personnel department." Miles, who is black, stuck out his hand, and the judge got an expression on his face as though he had just stepped into a fresh cowpie. He reached out and touched Charlie's palm with one finger, while turning eagerly to the pretty, blonde, blue-eyed Ann Richards. "And who is this lovely lady?"
Ann beamed and replied, "I am Mrs. Miles."~~Molly Ivins Click here to comment
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Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards dies
Updated: 9/14/2006 3:32 PM By: Staff
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She was 73. Richards was diagnosed with esophageal cancer and underwent chemotherapy.
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