It shows a smiling Hendricks in a dress standing next to her ex-husband in coat and tie, their two well-dressed sons flanking them on either side.

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Now, after two-and-a-half years of planning and seven months of stitching the coat, Mrs O'Connell is considering a career in textile art.

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Having carried marginal candidates into the House on his coat-tails, the president normally sees them swept out again two years later.

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Around his tiny shop in various stages of completion hang hunting jackets in corduroy and moleskin, a tweed sport coat or two, and at least one sleek pair of knickerbockers with deer-bone cuff buttons.

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