Nana Biography

No, about the way he did this divorce. If he fell in love with someone else and wanted to get married, there were nicer ways to do it. He absolutely did this so fast and so horribly – oh, and that whole year that we were waiting, he was with her, flaunting her in front of other people, he was taking her every place, driving around in a white Cadillac convertible, With a white poodle in the backseat, which was so out of character, I mean, it was so out of character you can’t believe it.

It was as if he had flipped? 

Yes. Just going out to the Menlo country club – I want to say they were ostracized, socially with our friends. That didn’t bother them. They would lie together on the grass. Our little boys would be running around. I decided, I wasn’t going to be put out of my place just because he was there, so, we would be sitting with a circle of friends.

At the same club, at the same time? 

Yes. This is the Menlo country club. It was his membership, not mine. We were not divorced yet, you see. And he would light a cigarette, and give it to her. Nobody spoke to them, they were ostracized. No man would play golf with him. He would call up and ask for a golf game, and they would call me and say , I told him he put his affairs in order to forget it. He would have been kicked out of the club, but they didn’t do it. They didn’t have the guts to kick him out. The children would run over and say hello to him. I didn’t stop them, oh no, and I never once, and I’m sure of this, said an unkind word about him to them. But I have now since when they’ve grown up. They, Leonard has a very good relationship with him now, politics, and the whole thing, but I think they understand it.

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