But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.

Bush. She joined the Queens County District Attorney's Office in 1974 where Geraldine Ferraro headed the new Special Victims Bureau that dealt with sex crimes child abuse and domestic violence. Ferraro died on March 26 2011 from multiple myeloma 12 years after being diagnosed.