There is one incident of the campaign I will never forget. Soon after the primary, before the operation, a woman rang my doorbell, and when I answered it she pushed an envelope into my hand. "This is the first, Chisholm," she said. There was $9.69 in the envelope, and I learned that she had col- lected it from a group of people on welfare at a bingo party. I sat down and cried. After she left, I told Conrad, "If I ever had any doubts, I don't now." My campaign was financed that way, and out of my own pocket.
