Born Freda Josephine McDonald in 1906, Baker married William Howard Baker in 1921 when she was 15 but makes no mention of this in the memoir. By then she had left St. Louis for New York and was ...

William Wampler was elected to Congress as a Republican in Virginia in 1967, the same year Howard Baker Jr. was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Republican in Tennessee, and both families moved to ...