The Good Old Days

That is, back when there was promise, a new Democratic governor, and Silda Wall Spitzer, a very accomplished First Lady of New York, who sacrificed her own ambitions for those of her husband.

By her own admission, she is an ambivalent political spouse, a high-powered woman in her own right who surrendered certain personal goals for the demands of public life. She was formerly a rising corporate lawyer, first at the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and then as in-house counsel for Chase Manhattan Bank, and she makes no bones about the satisfaction she found in the work force.

But as her husband plunged headlong into the political life, she decided to devote herself to their three daughters (now ages 12, 14 and 16) and to starting a philanthropic foundation. In a recent interview, she declared, “It’s not necessarily the way I thought I would be spending my time.”

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.