[...]Days after the 1976 presidential election, Lederer dashed off a note dispensing -- what else? -- advice to the newly elected president, "Jimmy," as she addressed him, about who should be his secretary of state. "Cy Vance ... He is head and shoulders above anyone else whose name has been mentioned."[...]"I'm nervous about the upcoming election," Lederer wrote to her sister on the eve of the 2000 election. "I can't bear the thought of looking at George Bush's smirk for the next four years--maybe eight. ... The next president will make three, maybe four appointments and I can see Roe...