1972 there was just no touching nixon. that was especially true in colorado, which was then a lot more conservative than it is today. nixon's margin in colorado was 28 points that year. even in the hub of the state's liberalism, denver, mcgovern still lost by double digits. and yet in the congressional district that covered denver, in that awful year for democrats, there was a big election day surprise. the incumbent republican congressman, james mckevitt was knocked off by patricia schroeder, field attorney for national labor board. when she was sworn in in january 1973 she became one of just 14 women in the house. the only one raising small children at home. this is back when it was widely assumed that women who worked did so out of boredom. a newspaper story said schroeder looked, quote, more like a college co-ed than a professional politician. they had no idea. over the next generation, congresswoman schroeder would