It turned out there was a good reason. FBI Director James Comey had just sent his infamous letter to Congress reopening the official investigation into Hillary’s emails, throwing the election into turmoil in the home stretch. Hillary and her top advisers were huddling on the plane, trying to figure out how to weather this one last blow.

After a devastating cancer diagnosis, the reproductive rights champion fought a battle on two fronts. Here, printed in full for the first time, is a conversation from last summer with the icon, who died on Monday at age 67.

Cecile Richards, then-president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, speaks to hundreds of supporters at a rally in Republic Square Park in downtown Austin in 2013. Richards died Monday at the age of 67 following a battle with brain cancer.