mr. hazelgrove: absolutely. in fact, when his prostate became blocked, they came to edith, three physicians, and said he needs to be operated on or he will die. andedith stared at them grayson was like, i am not sure he can survive the surgery, but the other doctors said he has to be operated on now or he will die. and edith said no, you will not touch him. they did not leave it there, they chased her into the next room and drew pictures of what was going on and said, you must let us operate or he will be dead in two hours. and she said no, we will let nature take its course, and nature did. but that shows you what a unique person was and that she would go her own way. i think this has to do with the factual iselle talk -- she was self-taught for most of her life. grit is of the word that came to mind when i read about edith. >> [indiscernible] -- out of book, for to have been three months, did they think about that? mr. hazelgrove: garfield was shot in the back and lingered for three months. the doctor came in

mr. hazelgrove: exactly. even at the end when he was very ill, he would say that, "i should just got -- die." boy,would tell him, "little you can keep going. you can do this." , whichhe was an enabler he did give him a lot of energy. scholars believe that he was as strong as his women were. it holds a lot of water when you see what happened to him. yes? daughters -- is have never heard them discussed in this context. what did you find out about them? hazelgrove: one daughter became sort of very mystical after he died. as far as the relationship with edith, i think they liked her. remember, edith was 15 years younger than the resident. she was the young woman. a lot of press in washington made a lot of that. some said she was a climber. that she was not really of the ilk to be marrying the president. -- lodge wasot devastating for her at the time. he would say that when they went to dinner, that her fingernails were dirty. think his relationship with his daughters -- i think he was a good father, but i think h