Reply #119: Just one of many articles says she knew in December of 2006

[Debi]

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Elizabeth Edwards, 59, who lives with her husband and family outside Chapel Hill, writes that John Edwards told her of his affair with campaign videographer Rielle Hunter shortly after he announced his second run for the presidency in December 2006 in New Orleans.

Elizabeth Edwards writes that she wanted her husband to quit the presidential race to protect the family. She writes that later events proved her right.

"He should not have run," she wrote.

But despite anger over the affair, Elizabeth Edwards stood by her husband, even though she harbored a secret that could have derailed the Democrats' chances of winning the White House if her husband had won the nomination.

When she revealed three months later, in March 2007, that her breast cancer had spread, Elizabeth Edwards stood beside her husband and said she encouraged him to press on with his second run for the presidency.

At the time, John Edwards said he would have withdrawn from the presidential race if his wife wanted.

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2009154979_edwards01.html