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Article: Cooke's Quandary: Private Terms, Public Strain Series: JACK KENT COOKE: THE MAN AND THE POWER Series Number: 2/3
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- The Washington Post
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- July 18, 1988
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By all rights, Susan Martin Cooke figures, the afternoon of July
24, 1987 should have been "the happiest time of my life." She had
just married "the man who I loved," and he was charming, witty and
wealthy-very wealthy. But when the new Mrs. Jack Kent Cooke left the
Alexandria General District County Court House that day, wearing an
elegant Chanel suit and exquisite pearl and diamond necklace, she was
not the blissful bride. "I wasn't entirely happy because I was very,
very nervous," she recalled. "I was thinking about what I had to do
the next day. I was thinking about the abortion."
Susan Cooke said she was about three months pregnant, and had
agreed with her husband, the billionaire ...