. >> now elizabeth edwards talking about patients' rights. she spokane washington at the patient's advocate foundation. this is about 40 minutes. >> good evening. good evening. i would like to invite all of you to continue to enjoy your dinner, but we certainly want to have adequate time and attention to enjoy the remark that elizabeth edwards is here to share with us this evening. i would like to introduce her the way all of us as advocates i think know her. i think elizabeth that if there was one thing this audience could say to you is that we see you to be a woman of substance. bctv someone that is an advocate for children. [applause] you are passionate about sharing your experience with cancer. we see you also as someone who is reached into your community and established scholarships and in honor of your son, wade and also an honor of your father and we also have scholarships for survivors. wees seawall so as someone who decided that he would record your thoughts and your emotions or all of us to learn from. your first book was saving gra

elizabeth edwards will appear on cnn later on "larry king live." here is what john edwards said last summer. >> two years ago i made a very serious mistake. a mistake that i am responsible for and no one else. in 2006 i told elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for for forgiveness, asked god for his forgiveness and we have kept this when it -- within our family since that time. all of our family knows about this. just to be absolutely clear, none of them are responsible for. >> is this a fair completely over? >> yes, it has been over for a long time. host: the questions we are asking, private lives and public officials. the home state newspaper in columbia, south carolina "the state." wayne washington in his piece saying the presidential dream is dead. whatever hopes mark sanford had to become president withered during his mysterious absence and died altogether during wednesday's explosive news conference, according to political observers. also the, stanford has much to do to make amends for deceit. the editorial said legislatures do share part of

[applause] >> and now remarks from elizabeth edwards, the wife of former presidential candidate john edwards. the patient advocate foundation here in washington hosted this event, it's about 40 minutes. >> thank y'all very much, and a special thanks to nancy and jack for turning a dream into something so incredibly powerful. i came up from north carolina -- [laughter] i've actually met a lot of north carolinians here, the di as pa sent everybody out. and when i did, nobody was at home. some people were at the beach, some people were at camp, so i was at home, and you'd think that'd be the perfect time so i'd be incredibly organized. i was not. i pulled the folder where i'd put my speech and the schedule of what was going to happen in my bag, and the speech was for an event in montana. [laughter] i write the speeches separately for each event, so it was a problem. the opening of this wonderful cancer clinic in montana was something i wanted to talk about, but not here. [laughter] so this afternoon i got to rewrite the speech. so i'll probably look down a little more than i should, but