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seen now in this encore booknotes from october 2000, journalist bonnie angelo discusses her book first mothers the women who shaped the presidents from this sara delano roosevelt to virginia kelley. profiles the women who nurtured the american presidents of the 20th century. it s about an hour. c-span: bonnie angelo, where did you get the idea to write about the first mothers? guest: well, you know, i d covered the white house for a long time for time magazine, but i remember the exact day it came into my head, and that was in 1968. i was covering the california primary with robert kennedy. and i i asked him i said the the family was deployed all over the state campaigning for him, and i said, with all the tragedy that your family has suffered at the hands of politics, how do you account for the fact that they re out there again?ai a and he kind of looked at me under the eyebrows and said, have you met my mother? and so i spent a couple of days with that formida ....

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