"Cokie" (not her real name) Boggs Roberts dead at the age of 75

Complications of breast cancer.  Likable, tough, prepared - a Washington insider who didn't cudgel you with it.  She and Ric Ocasek were the same age (if you believe Ric Ocasek) - guess who had the bigger impact and guess who deserved to have the bigger impact.

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