79 JFK AND BEYOND

Elizabeth Sherman and Mickey Edwards
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Elizabeth Sherman, an outspoken voice of the left and a current fellow at the Center for Public Leadership, and Mickey Edwards, a popular Kennedy School lecturer and former Republican congressman, met almost seven years ago while espousing their opposite points of view on Boston’s Channel 2’s “The Group.” Married for the past four years, have they agreed to disagree? “Not at all,” says Edwards, rolling his eyes. “Sometimes on the way home from an appearance, Elizabeth will turn to me and ask ‘How could you have said that?’” While neither has succeeded in changing the other’s political point of view, they remain steadfast in their own. Sherman, a senior fellow and founding director of the McCormack Institute’s Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at UMass Boston, is hard at work on a book about former Philippine president Corazon Aquino and current president Gloria Arroyo, while Edwards keeps the conservative political philosophy alive in class and as a regular political commentator on National Public Radio. They also continue to appear — both together and separately — on numerous local television broadcasts. They’ve also been guests at separate times on Fox’s “O’Reilly Factor,” but, says Sherman, “I’m the only one who fights back.”