Talk to Harriet Miers about the history made at the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 4 — the day the high court launched its term for the first time with three women justices — and there is no shoulda, woulda, coulda in her.

She does not bring up the drubbing she took in 2005 after then-President George W. Bush nominated her to the court or her subsequent withdrawal of that nomination amidst a national hue and cry. And she does not point out that it is she who might have become the third female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.