She does sound like she is something else—but the fact that she had been his secretary when he dumped his first wife and married her is a big black mark on both of them. Too long in Washington.
She was 30, he was 55.
That might’ve mattered years ago, not so much today, and that they were married for almost 3 decades does tend to count for something. As I’ve mused on many times, DC is a terrible place for married couples (worse if they have children) to be, at least those married prior to their spouses being in politics. The pre-DC wives tend to get sick of it real fast, because the men have to decide whether they want their career or to go back home (a demand Bob Dole’s first wife made). Before long, many of them end up in affairs with their staffers or even marrying them after divorcing wife #1.
I’m often bemused by some running for Congress showing off their nice families, as so many have no idea what they’re in for. You’re better off going there single, and if you’re lucky, you’ll marry someone “in the biz” that shares similar interests (and even better, if they work in their office to keep an eye on hubby). ;-)