Yes, I just read this, and am saddened. I truly admired her since I was a kid, she was first lady the year we lived in the States.

One of my enduring memories of her (well, about her, really) is when she had gone public with her breast cancer - and that alone was a big deal at the time - and had the mastectomy. At the time, and it may have changed, they put you under for the biopsy, and if benign, woke you up, and if not, the did a full mastectomy before waking you up, so you went under not knowing. Meanwhile my mom and sisters and I discussed whether it was such a big deal that she'd gone public also.

We heard on the news that (a) the tumor was cancerous and (b) she hadn't woken up yet from the anesthetic.

My eldest sister looked at us and said, do you realize we know she's had her boob cut off, and she doesn't yet?

I remember being impressed, and later analysis makes me think something like, her willingness to put herself in that situation - to put the public's right to know above her actual and immediate *need* to know - showed her to be a great person, and later understanding of politics has extended that to she was a truly great First Lady.

And nothing from or about her since has caused me to revise that first impression.