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Minutes earlier, another Democratic Senator had taken the oath, one who came by way of a far more profound tragedy. Three months before, Jean Carnahan was working on a speech in her office at the Missouri Governor's mansion when she looked up to find a state trooper at the door. He dropped on one knee, took her hand and told her that her eldest son Randy and her husband, Governor Mel Carnahan, had just been killed when their small plane crashed. "I knew instantly what he was going to say. My world stopped." A few days later...
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on chads and other electoral alligators finally rolled in and Bush made his victory speech, Irwin Hentschel watched with her family in their gated French colonial mansion in the exclusive Bel Air section. Outside, a Rolls-Royce and a Jaguar were parked in the driveway. Irwin Hentschel was moved to tears and was perhaps more inspired than usual to say goodbye to her clan (which includes seven children) and board an SUV for a weekly nocturnal mission that sometimes means wearing a bulletproof vest. Her driver transported her across the universe--a 30-minute...
...Supreme Court had made its decision the night before, and on Dec. 13 Laura Bush's husband would claim the presidency. But for weeks another meeting had been scheduled at the Governor's mansion for that same Wednesday night. It was to be the final report on this year's Texas Book Festival, an event that Laura had begun and shepherded for five years. So from 5:30 to just after 7, while her husband prepared his victory speech and waited for a phone call from Vice President Al Gore, Laura sat with some 60 people and listened to reports...
...enduring legacy will be the Texas Book Festival each November, which celebrates books, writing and reading and has raised almost $1 million for Texas libraries. There are readings and seminars in the state capitol, receptions in the Governor's mansion, a black-tie dinner. Laura is not just a figurehead but involved in every aspect of producing the festival. She knows which authors to invite and is familiar with their work. She selects and organizes the staff of professionals and volunteers. More than that, she has founded and maintained the festival without letting it become political in any way. Stephen...
Elvis is not leaving the building. Neither is Mrs. Elvis. Bob Dole was onto something when he once joked that it would take a SWAT team to get the Clintons out of the White House. After secretly checking out houses as storied as the Auchincloss mansion in Georgetown, the couple agreed last Friday to buy a six-bedroom, seven-bath, $2.8 million colonial on a third of an acre in an exclusive neighborhood. Secluded and quietly elegant, it has a spectacular garden in back, with a pool tucked in amid hundred-year-old trees. Nearby is the Naval Observatory...