O’Connor Says Her Husband, Who Has Alzheimer’s, Isn’t Doing Well
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said she has no good news to report about her husband, John, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s.
O’Connor spoke to the New York Times to publicize her new educational website for middle-school-age kids called Ourcourts.org. “We have some games that you will find most intriguing,” she promises.
Asked how her husband was doing, she replied: “Not well. There’s no good news with Alzheimer’s.”
She confirmed that her husband had struck up a friendship with another woman at a Phoenix Alzheimer’s facility. “He was in a cottage, and there was a woman who kind of attached herself to him,” she told the Times. “It was nice for him to have someone there who was sometimes holding his hand and to keep him company. And then he was moved to a different cottage, because his condition deteriorated. And in the new cottage, there’s another woman who has been very sweet to him. And I’m totally glad.”
O’Connor didn’t tip her hand when asked if she gets along with the former Republican presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain (she says she doesn’t know him well). Nor did she disclose what she thought of Harriet Miers’ short-lived nomination to the Supreme Court (she says Miers’ nomination was withdrawn before she had time to think anything).
And did she vote for McCain? “Come on, is this about my website?” O’Connor asked.