Still More That I Can Do: The Satisfactions of Staying the Course

Woodward’s response to Robert Penn Warren’s death was virtually the same as it had been not only to the passing of his other dear friends but even to the loss of Peter and Glenn. William McFeely recalled that Woodward seemed more miffed than gratified when he and other junior instructors at Yale offered to cover some of his classes during Peter’s last days in 1969, and “we backed off fast.” Four days before his son’s death, Woodward was apologizing to Norman Pollack for the delay in reading his book manuscript brought on by a “grave illness in the family” and