I want to keep this apolitical, but I wonder what some people on The Other Side are going to do with this information.
At 77, it's not unlikely that he might have some degree of dementia and didn't really understand what he was doing. I have not read her autobiography, but I did hear an excerpt of it with the news, and in short, she said she left him in large part because she didn't feel like she could be herself with him. I'm glad they didn't have any children; she was just 18 when they married.