1<br >Behind the Walls<br >ONE DAY<br > In mid-1978, nearly four years after she left the White House,<br >one day was much like another for her.<br > She awakens before seven in the darkened bedroom of her San<br >Clemente home. When the drapes are parted, the Pacific Ocean<br >appears as though through gauze in the July morning haze; by ten<br >or eleven, a commanding view of the coastline will stand out bril-<br >liantly as far as Dana Point, eight miles to the north.<br > In twenty minutes she is at breakfast, brought by Fina Sanchez.<br >Fina and her husband Manolo have been cook, valet, and maid for<br >the Nixons for more than ten years. There are no other servants in<br >the U-shaped house. Breakfast is always light: fresh fruit or fruit<br >juice, toast and coffee. It has not changed in decades, nor has the<br >time she rises, but now there is a difference.<br > She eats slowly, using her left hand instead of the customary<br >right. The physical therapist has instructed her to use the hand,<br >especially the fingers, as much and as often as possible, to<br >strengthen the muscles affected by the stroke she suffered in July<br >of 1976. The stroke has partially paralyzed her left side, slightly<br >affected her speech, which is still somewhat slurred, and brought<br >on a painful arthritic condition.<br > Her hours are precisely planned. After a lifetime of tightly or-<br ><br >
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