Boggs Dies

Lindy Boggs, congresswoman and Democratic leader, dies at 97 - The Washington Post:

Lindy Boggs, a Democratic Party doyenne from Louisiana whose magnolia charm and political acumen helped her husband rise to U.S. House majority leader, and who then launched her own congressional and diplomatic career after his disappearance in an airplane crash, died July 27 at her home in Chevy Chase. She was 97.

The death was confirmed by her daughter, broadcast journalist Cokie Roberts, who said the medical cause of death was not immediately known...