More women ran for president in 2020 than in any other time in history.

But the truth is, women have been running for president even before they could vote for president.

And on this episode, we're going to look at three women candidates who have attempted to reach that highest office.

Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm, and Pat Schroeder.

Our first story comes from Thureland Producer, Jamie York.

At sea level, when the temperature is 71 degrees, sound moves at 770 mph.

At 35,000 feet where the air is 65 degrees below zero, sound moves more slowly at around 660 mph.

So if something, like a plane that creates sound, moves closer and closer to 660 mph, it catches up to the sound it has made.

This sound piles up in front of the plane, like snow on the edge of a plow.

The change of pressure as the plane overtakes and bursts through the sound it has made, is silent in the plane.

But on the ground,

it's loud crack.

It's heard as a sonic boom, as if something huge has been broken.

She was very, very proud of that, to break the sound barrier.

Chuck Yeager was the first man to break the sound barrier in 1947, and Jacqueline Cochrane was the first woman in 1953.

But in 1957, after a day of training, Margaret Chase Smith went Mach 1, supersonic.

She was 59, she flew it nearly a thousand miles per hour, and she loved it.

Or, as she put it, it was wonderful, even the barrel rolls.

Well, she was on the Air and Space Committee, so somebody asked her if she wanted to go for a ride, so she said sure.

Make sure there's lots of pictures, woman in a man's world.

It earned her the title of First Woman in Congress to break the sound barrier.

When I was growing up in Maine, which she represented, first in the US House of Representatives, and then in the Senate,

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