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Reporter's Notebook: The forgotten daughter of a U.S. president finally comes home

In 1839, a 53-year-old American woman wrote from Paris, "I am now in distress, in ill health and in an a foreign country." Stranded and desperate, she pled: "Save me from utter ruin." Rescue would take more than 180 years to arrive. "CBS Evening News" co-anchor John Dickerson explains.
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