It's 1950, and among the members of the United States Congress, few are more widely respected or more attractive than the honorable Miss Agatha Reed. Battle-weary from her most recent tussle to create a better government, she reaches her office to find good news awaiting. There has been a letter received from the Good Hope College, who have written to her offering an honorary degree. The reason she's excited? Well, the college president is none other than her old flame, Jim Merrill...