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>> Our last call comes to us
from las vegas, nevada.
>> Caller: Hello, good
afternoon.
>> Good afternoon.
>> Caller: Mrs. Edwards I wanted
to thank you very much for some
very articulate and very
detailed and complete
descriptions of the
kerry-edwards plan.
It very much clarified a loft
the issues for me, and i would
like to just make a request of
you and mrs. Heinz kerry, would
you would, please, in the next
coming days and the first days
of the kerry-edwards
administration, should the
republican party continue its
history of attacking the women
violently and vociferously in
their vocal attacks that you
please remember that many of us
do not agree with that.
I love strong, hard-hitting,
to-the-point women.
You and mrs. Heinz kerry have
proven that you are them.
The people, the democratic
underground whose posts i read
quite frequently also enjoy very
much you and mrs. Heinz kerry,
and my mother, too, actually
appreciates articulate women.
>> Thank you, caller.
>> Thank you.
Now, I'm also a reader of
"democratic underground" and a
lot of the other blogs and lists
out there to see what's going
on.
I sure get a lot of great
information from those sites.
And thank you very much.
Both teresa and i have been
through tragedies a lot worse
than having people say bad
things about us.
They're just words and i promise
you they won't bother us.
>> Mrs. Edwards, you also have
your own blog site at
johnkerry.Com.
How often do you write?
>> I write every couple of days.
I meant to write last night
because I was at a great apple
orchard in maine, i want thed to
write about but with a
4-year-old and 6-year-old taking
most of my attention i didn't
t a chancete aboutha
last night.
Perhaps I'll do that tonight.
>> Can you share with our
audience a little background
about you, your family, where
you grew up your mom and dad and
your children today?
>> Let's see, i have -- I was
born in jacksonville.
My dad was in the navy.
It was duvall county.
I traveled wherever my dad went.
My brother is a year younger
than I am, a filmmaker and
instructor at a film school in
new york.
My sister is a bookkeeper and
mother in bradenton, florida.
I have my family pretty much
spread out.
My parents, my father is retired
living in sarasota, and i just
got i chance to see them in the
last couple of days and they got
a chance to go to a rally of my
husband's, which is great.
We lived all over the world
really.
My dad spent a lot of time in
japan.
I got three tours of duty in
japan so I was there for a total
of nine years, eight years while
he was stationed there, and one
year while we stayed when he was
serving in vietnam, we stay
there had so we could be close
to him.
Graduated from high school in
northern virginia in the
washington D.C. Area, and
decided to go to college, first
at the women's college of the
university of virginia and to
chapel hill which turned out to
be a good choice since that's
where i met john.
>> Your children today?
>> I had four children.
We have a child in the '70s,
'80s, '90s and '00s i was saying
at the town hall.
Our oldest child, wade, died in
1996.
He was a splendid boy, three
weeks before had won a voice of
america speech contest about
what it means to be an american.
Our oldest daughter is 22, just
graduated from princeton, kate.
She has been busy on the
campaign trail with a schedule
just about as busy as anybody
else's speaking to young people
about the issues that are
important to them.
I actually steal a lot of her
lines.
She's pretty good at this.
Then then i have a 6-year-old,
emma claire and 4-year-old, jack
who is a kindergarten pistol.
>> Did the loss of your son
allow you to rethink what he was
going to do and really lead him
into politics?
>> Well, we've been talking
about this befre, before wade
ed we talked about john's
running actually for the senate
seat that he ran for.
Everyone w has lost a child
will tell you you pretty much
wipe the slate clean on the day
that happens and anything seems
possible and nothing seems
possible so I don't know whether
it's more likely or less likely
that he followed that path after
wade died but as it turned out,
that he has done what wade did
want for the send I'mad did.
He is a true voice for people
who want to aspire to the
american dream.
He has a great story of growing
up in a working class family and
having all of the possibilities
of america open up to him and
he's all about making certain
that happens for the rest of the
country.
>> Elizabeth edwards, we want
too thank you for joining us
from harrisburg, pennsylvania,
taking our calls.
What's the rest of your week
like?
Do you have a schedule?
>> Hostly I know that tomorrow
I'm in ohio and minnesota and
iowa.
I know that I'm going to be back
in my parents' territory in
florida towards the end of the
week, but every day i get up and
get to read where I'm going the
next day so i can figure out how
to dress.
>> We thank you and appreciate
you being here with us on
c-span.
>> Thanks very much.
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