Elizabeth Edwards played a key role in convincing her husband to continue his campaign, a source close to both John and Elizabeth Edwards told CNN's Candy Crowley.
The day John Edwards publicly admitted fathering a child by another woman, Elizabeth Edwards legally separated from him with the intention of filing for divorce at the end of a mandatory waiting period (in January 2011).
But he said the jurors didn't trust the testimony of the government's star witness, former Edwards aide Andrew Young, who accepted the money and hid Mr. Edwards's pregnant mistress from his ailing wife, the late Elizabeth Edwards, and from the press while he ran for president.
He told his wife that Hunter approached him at a hotel, Elizabeth Edwards said.
On March 22, John and Elizabeth Edwards held a news conference in Chapel Hill, N.
There's interest in Michelle Obama but - and Elizabeth Edwards as well is popular.
"We're incredibly optimistic, " Elizabeth Edwards said at a news conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Last fall, Elizabeth Edwards was the guest speaker at a Boston conference sponsored by NEWSWEEK and Harvard Medical School.
Elizabeth Edwards, 57, said she was "incredibly optimistic" and said her expectations about the future were unchanged.
The former senator campaign in California today, while Elizabeth Edwards plans a book-signing in North Carolina later this week.
Elizabeth Edwards discovered she had breast cancer in October 2004, in the final weeks of Edwards' vice presidential campaign.
Elizabeth Edwards noted life after a cancer diagnosis means being on constant guard.
The doctor said Elizabeth Edwards' treatment hadn't been determined, pending more test results.
Elizabeth Edwards said she was fortunate that she felt pain from a cracked rib and got X-rays that revealed the cancer.
In her 2006 book, "Saving Graces, " Elizabeth Edwards wrote about her life, including cancer treatment and the death of her son.
Elizabeth Edwards first underwent treatment for breast cancer after the 2004 campaign in which her husband was the Democratic vice presidential nominee.
I'm very grateful for the extraordinary service of John and Elizabeth Edwards.
CNN: Transcript of Thursday's Democratic presidential debate
Elizabeth Edwards announced last year that her breast cancer had returned.
Ms. ELIZABETH EDWARDS (Wife of presidential candidate John Edwards): Best wishes.
Ms. ELIZABETH EDWARDS: That's because it tells him something about him.
Despite threats by vile nutters to disrupt the funeral, Elizabeth Edwards was quietly laid to rest today in Raleigh, North Carolina, at the age of 61.
Elizabeth Edwards was on the campaign trail today in Cleveland.
"At the end of the night instead of doing all the fast things that fellows did then, he gave me a kiss on the forehead, " Elizabeth Edwards said.
Days after the 2004 election, in which her husband ran for vice president, Elizabeth Edwards was found to have invasive ductal carcinoma, the most common type of breast cancer.
CLEVELAND, Ohio (CNN) -- In her first public speech since announcing last Thursday that her breast cancer had returned, Elizabeth Edwards appealed Monday for more federal funding for health research of all kinds, including stem-cell research.
CNN: Back on trail, Elizabeth Edwards pushes stem-cell funding
But Elizabeth Edwards says times have changed since then: Candidates live more public lives, cancer doesn't have the stigma it once did, and she believes talking about her illness helps voters learn something about her husband.
Professor KAREN BECKWITH (Gender Politics, Case Western Reserve University): This offers Elizabeth Edwards and John Edwards the opportunity to emphasize issues of health care, of women's health, other issues related to women that may strengthen his campaign.
The senator talked about family oriented issues, such as the campaign's plans to provide health care to more Americans but he -- and Elizabeth Edwards -- also got personal, telling stories about their children and -- particularly -- their first date.
Raleigh, North Carolina (CNN) More than 1, 200 mourners, including hundreds who loved and admired Elizabeth Edwards from a distance, packed a Raleigh church Saturday to pay respects to the activist and estranged wife of a failed aspirant to the presidency.
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