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— Sharp-witted. Direct. In control. Loyal.

That’s how friends describe Jenny Sanford, the wife of Gov. Mark Sanford, who confessed to the nation in a rambling news conference that he was having an affair with a woman in Argentina.

Jenny Sanford, unlike so many wives of cheating politicians, was not there facing the cameras, standing beside her husband.

A reporter asked the governor if he and his wife of 20 years were separated.

“I’m here, and she’s there,” he replied.

South Carolina’s first lady, scrutinized