Margaret Chase Smith Runs for President

"As gratifying as are the reasons advanced urging me to run, I find the reasons advanced against my running to be far more impelling… so, because of these very impelling reasons against my running, I have decided that I shall." Margaret Chase Smith is met with an uproar of applause and laughter after her contradictory statement that she will ultimately run for President of the United States.

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The audio sounds really sped up.

[@aaronrafaelzevin-lopez7222]

wasn't she like
really really racist

[@ModernRep1952]

No she wasn't, she voted in favor of every Civil Rights Act from 1957 to 1968 and voted for the 24th Amendment which banned poll taxes.