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Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros was supposed to attend a select dinner at the White House last week, but he had a more compelling social event on his calendar: a birthday party for his six-year-old son John Paul. Cisneros, a father to remember this Sunday...
...Cisneroses, every moment with John Paul just now is precious. Suffering from asplenia syndrome, a condition in which a child is born with no spleen and a heart with two right atria, John Paul will undergo heart surgery next month, and his parents cannot be sure how many birthdays remain. The boy's heart, Cisneros reflects, does not even sound like a normal heart. "Most human hearts go ker-thump, ker-thump," he says. "His goes swish, swish, swish...
To accommodate his need to be with John Paul, Cisneros, 46, has had to reorder his life. He ended discussions of his possibly being appointed to Lloyd Bentsen's seat in the U.S. Senate because the Texas-Washington commute would have taken up too much of his time. Cisneros accepted...
Once again with a physician the next morning, Cisneros can only think of the surgery to come. Doctors must reshape John Paul's heart in time to keep up with his growth. Cisneros dreads explaining to him what lies ahead. "I couldn't bear his questions," he says. "Nothing in...
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, who was a candidate for the seat before joining the Cabinet, offered a different spin. The race might have been much closer, said Cisneros, but "Krueger ran away from his President and his party." He added, "His campaign was almost a blunt rejection...