CSPAN3 Elaine Jones Oral History Interview April 22, 2017
Its difficult for some to be introspective. But you came from a household with a strong mother and father. What affected they have on you . Tremendous effect. There were three of us children. Older brother, younger sister. Story at the dinner table. Father and mother are very verbal people. At the dinner table each night one of us, parents included would have to defend ourselves from something. We would be taken to task by the other four with something that happened that day. You found yourself trying to sink or swim. It was a very active dinner table. It was a conversation. Earliest that happ...