Oh, how times have changed

From NBC/NJ's Carrie Dann DENVER, Colo. -- The last time 82-year-old Ann Hadfield attended the Democratic National Convention, she was in disguise. The year was 1936. Then the 10-year-old daughter of a Democratic state representative from Delaware, Hadfield wanted to see what all the fuss was about in Philadephia, where Franklin D.  Roosevelt was poised to accept his party's nomination as its nominee. The trouble was that her dad was short one of the three extra seats he wanted in the first row of history; he hoped to bring along Hadfield, her 8-year-old sister, and their 11-year-old cousin to watch the goings-on. They pulled it off.  "We had just been in a play at school," Hadfield recalls. So her enterprising dad dressed the children in their theatrical costumes -- as old-time Quaker kids. The trick worked like a charm. Organizers whisked the kids to the center of the action, no questions asked. ...( read more ) (link)