Jessica shared a link to this superb op-ed below the fold on today's public schedule, and HuffPo picked up an option to publish it. It is so special and beautifully written, that I really think the traffic should go directly to the original post at the author's blog. Mr. Anthony wishes he could have seen Mrs. Rodham just one more time. I, too, wish he could have. This was a special friendship lovingly celebrated in his post. A must read! Masterfully written and touching.
My Friendship with Hillary Clinton’s Mother: The Influence of Observant, Worldly, Hopeful Mrs. Rodham
carlanthonyonline.comDorothy Howell at the time of her 1942 marriage.
Dorothy Rodham with her husband Hugh bidding farewell to their daughter, before departing the White House after the 1993 Inauguration festivities.
By 2005, Dorothy Rodham didn’t need to walk to the National Zoo alone. After all, her son-in-law had been President and her daughter was then a United States Senator and an aide or companion could easily have been hired. The mother of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who died at age 92 on Tuesday this week, liked her time alone, she once told me, “just to think.” Even though she termed her walking by then “labored,” in one of the letters she wrote me over the years, she’d determined to make her trip a daily goal and kept at it steadily. Her treat in going to the zoo, however, was not in observing the exotic beasts behind bars: “I find myself watching the people more than the animals.”
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