She calmly walked up to the imposing dais, where the equally imposing Thomas P. O’Neill was presiding as speaker and leader of the Democratic majority. She quietly whispered in her old friend’s ear about New Orleans’ need for federal transit assistance.
One need not ask whether the assistance was granted, across party lines in the House and across generations in New Orleans’ political leadership. The streetcar line, despite its battering from Hurricane Katrina, remains today one of the nation’s signature cultural and transportation assets.
That was only one of many times that Boggs and Livingston served the people of Louisiana in tandem until the elder Democrat left the House. Livingston went on to serve as a highly successful chairman of the Appropriations Committee.
The moral of this story: What would the Louisiana delegation have said if a blowhard Republican officeholder or commentator had made vicious aspersions about Mrs. Boggs’ morals? That she had traded her vote for a project in her home state as though she were a prostitute?

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