Advertisement Continue reading the main storyFor two days, and 1,193 miles, Mrs. Ehrman tried to talk her out of it. Always exhibiting a blunt restlessness, Mrs. Ehrman did not conform to the traditional role of the midcentury housewife. She shared a room in Little Rock with Mrs. Ehrman when they both worked on Mr. Clinton’s 1992 campaign. For all her maternal warmth, Mrs. Ehrman was famously strong-willed, and her politics fell to the left of the Clintons’. In 2011, at 92, Mrs. Ehrman met in the West Bank with Salam Fayyad, the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority at the time.

Source: New York Times June 03, 2017 22:35 UTC