c-span: known as lally? >> guest: known as lally. and donald, who is chief executive officer of the company. william, called bill, who has an investment partnership in los angeles, but who lives on the vineyard in the summer and is very interested and loves the vineyard and lives next door to me with his children, and i love that. and steven, who is married and lives in new york and is getting a postgraduate degree in--in literature and is in teaching, but he has been in the theater and has produced and--and has an experimental theater going. c-span: you lost a son? >> guest: i lost our first baby, which was tremendously traumatic, who was born full term, but because it was in washington during--at the beginning of the war and the hospitals were very busy. and it was an--it was a s--an accidental thing in the hospital; it really shouldn't have happened. and phil went in the army right afterwards, so it was pretty devastating, yes. c-span: what impact did it have on you? do you remember? >> guest: well, i w--it was just awful, because

others just want to put it behind and start moving forward and basical lally evaporate froe publ public's eye. it's very important to respect perspectives on how they do it and let them take that moment to, you know, find their own way. i mean, when you talk with everyone, there is never a one fits all type of thing, and i think one of the most important things that we can do as the public is to respect their privacy. i think that's one of the most important things. if they decide to go public and to be out in the public, that the one thing. but i think to give them their space is very, very important. you know, many people don't ever want to be known for, you know, this horrible thing that has happened, and i respect that. i mean, everyone just handles things so completely different. but the important thing is that we as members of a society respect that, respect them and give them their space and i feel that the way everything has been handled so far is really great. you know, i know when elizabeth came home, i was so grateful that she wasn't hounded, that, you know, she had her space.

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would continue to contusult with britn and other i'll lallies. officials told members of congress they had intercepted communications proving assad's regime carried out the chemical weapons attack. u.s. is expected to wait for a final report from the u.n. inspectors, due to leave syria on saturday, before deciding on the next course of action. hadly gamble joins us on set. it is interesting, where does the british parliament vote really leave the u.s., do you think, and president obama? >> really it leaves the u.s. in a tight spot. president obama has to make this a clear decision about foreign policy. this is no longer just about chemical weapons being used in syria. this is now about basically iran and the broader region. we have iran influencing everything happening in syria at this point, the fallout there being in lebanon, in turkey. we also have the threat of a nuclear weapons program in iran. if president obama were to look weak on iran, what that means is inevitably there would be questions about his foreign policy. in politics, you can m