At the time — it was 1979 — the Concord Monitor said Hancock would be missed at the State House: “If there was anyone in the state Senate who disdained political mumbo-jumbo, who said bluntly what she thought, sometimes in salty terms, and who was the conscience of the Senate, it was Mary Louise Hancock. She’s a mover and a shaker who knows the innards of bureaucracy like the palm of her hand.”
Much is the same today — the insight, the candor, the humor. Ask about the current state of affairs, and Hancock says, “Sometimes I swear. I shouldn’t, but I do,” before bemoaning the bitterness and cynicism permeating politics.
- At 94, Democratic doyenne is still the go-to person in N.H., The Boston Globe, April 20, 2017.
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Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.
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