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Kerry Spot [ jim geraghty reporting ]
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THE TERESA WE ALWAYS SUSPECTED
Coming in Newsweek soon:
Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, presented a host of
behind-the-scenes drama for Kerry. Early on, the campaign staff regarded
Teresa as something of a hypochondriac, and she canceled three trips in
October at the last minute, usually for what was described to aides as a
"nonspecific malady." Kerry's first campaign manager, James Jordan, had
little patience for her strong opinions, sending emails trashing the
candidate's wife...which inevitably reached his rivals within the campaign,
including Bob Shrum (an old Teresa friend) and helped seal Jordan's eventual
dismissal.
One of the reasons I began to suspect Bush would win in the final days before the campaign was wondering how America would react to Teresa Heinz-Kerry as First Lady. There really has been no woman even remotely like Teresa in the White House.
[Posted 11/04 04:33 PM]
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