Elizabeth Edwards

As Americans mourn for Elizabeth Edwards, thousands of news articles have paid tribute to one of the country's most outspoken and beloved political spouses. Most of those tributes have focused on 61-year-old Edwards' battle with metastatic breast cancer, along with her husband John's affair with a videographer working for his 2008 presidential campaign.
 
Fewer words have been spent on Edwards as an intellectual and political thinker. She was that, too. In a series of 2007 interviews with Barry Yeoman—a frequent contributor to Prime Time Radio and AARP The Magazine—Edwards talked about how her childhood and early adulthood shaped her views of the military, foreign policy, and domestic issues like women's equality and same-sex marriage. Yeoman used those interviews to write a profile of her in O, The Oprah Magazine, which can be read here.
 
The recordings of those interviews have not been released until now. In this special segment of Prime Time Radio, Edwards discusses growing up at the U.S. Army's Camp Zama in Japan, and how that influenced her thinking about soldiers and war.