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Article: Kerry gets off to a bumpy start Refusal to release Kerry's wife's tax returns raises suspicions . . . the Kerrys have something to hide.
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 22, 2004
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Sen. John Kerry, having escaped intact a one-hour grilling by
NBC's Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" Sunday, slipped in the closing
minutes. When asked why his multi-millionaire wife was not making
public her tax returns, he misinterpreted the law and the facts. He
can only hope voters regard this as arcane trivia.
Three days before her husband's first full-length televised
interview since he clinched the Democratic presidential nomination,
Teresa Heinz Kerry became the first would-be first lady to refuse
disclosure since the practice became common. Kerry told Russert the
law required him but not his wife to reveal tax returns, when in fact