Jackie’s impulse to clean up the environment had also been tempered by her faith: “I’m probably less an activist than I would be because of my faith today,” she says. “As a kid, I wrote every president to tell him what I thought he needed to do. But now, I’m less involved. I do think a lot of activists are self-serving. You have to put up with things the way they are.” She has a deep story self: she had fought her way out of a tough childhood, to the front of the line for the American Dream, a line in which she feared her family could lose its place. Meanwhile, as we drive past the American
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