They had two daughters, Alexandra (movie-maker) and Andrea (medical doctor). Kondracke struggled with alcoholism during the 1980s, and he credits Millicent for helping him end his addiction by 1987. In 1988, Millicent was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Her long struggle with the disease prompted Kondracke to become an advocate for Parkinson's disease research and for increased government spending on medical research. Millicent Kondracke grew increasingly incapacitated by the disease and died on July 22, 2004. Kondracke detailed his family's struggle with Parkinson's in a 2001 book called Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease (). The book was the basis of a CBS television movie called Saving Milly, starring Madeleine Stowe and Bruce Greenwood, which was broadcast on March 13, 2005. On May 6, 2006, Kondracke married Marguerite Sallee, CEO of America's Promise. He is a trustee of Dartmouth College, a board member of the Parkinson's Action Network and a member of the Founders Council of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. Works Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease, PublicAffairs, 2001, Enough Already, PublicAffairs, 2007, Morton Kondracke, Fred Barnes, Jack Kemp: The Bleeding-Heart Conservative Who Changed America, Penguin, 2015, References External links Roll Call newspaper The Papers of Morton Kondracke at Dartmouth College Library "Kondracke Confronts the Pain and Politics of Parkinson's Disease", Tech Central Station, June 7, 2001 "Reflections on Nelson Rockefeller's legacy" Dartmouth Life Newspaper, May, 2008 Reagan Mondale debate October 21, 1984 on Wikimedia Commons 1939 births American columnists American newspaper editors American political commentators American political writers American male non-fiction writers Dartmouth College alumni Georgetown University alumni Living people The New Republic people United States Army soldiers Writers from Chicago