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Article: Stumping for Her Son the Candidate; Loreen Gephardt, Doing Her Bit in Iowa
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- The Washington Post
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- February 5, 1988
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Loreen Gephardt just can't understand why people are so
interested in hearing bad things about her boy Dick, the former Eagle
Scout now running for president.
"That's the main question they ask me, `Did he ever do anything
bad?' And I say, `I can't think of anything,' and they say, `Well,
you've just forgotten.' And I say I was blessed . . . One reporter
asked, `Well, doesn't this concern you?' I said, `I'm telling you, he
was a good boy.' "
Dick's older brother Don, sitting across the living room in his
mother's temporary apartment here, comes to her rescue:
"I guess what people are asking is-`Is he real? Does he get
angry?' Well, sure. He did have quite the temper when he was little. ...