It was one thing for her husband’s deeds to go unrecognized in the heat of the moment. “But will the doing be recorded in history? That is one of today’s puzzles that I hope to live to see tomorrow give an answer to. Or does it matter if you get the job done, whether you get the recognition?” She answered her own question, and it was an answer that would animate her escalating focus, her near fixation, on how to get out of Washington without running for a second term, where she could not see a clear prospect of greater achievement for her husband. “I think it does, because you don’t have the
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