but when Ms. Steinem asked Mrs. Nixon about her own youth, her role models and life-style, Pat Nixon, always so cool, blew: “I never had time to think about things like that, who I wanted to be, or who I admired, or to have ideas. I never had time to dream about being anyone else. I had to work. I haven’t just sat back and thought of myself or my ideas or what I wanted to do ... I’ve kept working. I don’t have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with. I never had it easy. I’m not at all like you ... all those people who had it easy.” It would be difficult, in that rather
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