Nana Biography

There was a very big family rift then. She was his secretary. Well, this whole year was horrible, because I had gotten a lawyer, I got very good advice, he said, don’t be alone with a man for the whole year. Just keep a diary, cause this is tough. We found out about this girl, she used to carry a gun  (laughs).  It was headlines in the paper in the examiner, the first week after he left.

How did you feel about that? 

I had so many newspaper people calling me. Here he was, president of the young Republican club, he skipped town, what was going to happen. Well, my lawyer immediately froze all of his assets so he couldn’t write any more money and they had to come back. Thank God, I had a good lawyer and a tough one. 

How did you feel about the public?

Well, I hated it. What I did was to go up to the Christian science benevolent sanitorium in San Francisco, where no one can get to you and I had a week there alone, kind of. Not a Christian scientist, I wasn’t, but it was a. They got through to me on the telephone there, they said, I’m a friend of Dan and I’m trying to find out where he is, and all this, you know. Nobody knew where he was. So, that period of that year was horrible.  And my mother, who had been widowed for the second time, I called her, and she came out on the train to stay with us. She was so so darling. I met her on the train with the little boys, and that was the first time I broke down, when she came, and the little boys were there, and she broke down, and everybody cried. She came to the house. I had a maid, and life was pretty nice because we got along very well. My mother and I had a wonderful relationship.

After the marriage.

It was just terrific. And the little boys were kind of fun. She was there mainly as a protection for me. They put a detective on me.

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