Edwards’s Wife: I Wouldn’t Attend Cabinet Meetings
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WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Edwards says she has no interest in attending Cabinet meetings if her husband, Democrat John Edwards, is elected president.
Mr. Edwards says the first lady has a “great big megaphone, and you get to talk about things you care about, and I hope I’d be busy doing that and mothering my adorable children as opposed to sitting in Cabinet meetings.”
She made the comments in an interview with ABC News’s “Nightline” that is scheduled to air tonight. The network yesterday released excerpts of the interview.
Last week, GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani told the network’s “20/20” program that he saw no reason to ban his wife, Judith Nathan Giuliani, who once worked as a nurse, from attending Cabinet meetings if he won election.
