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Herman Cain 'totally respects women,' wife says in rare interview

Claims of sexual harassment against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain don't ring true because he "totally respects women," his wife Gloria Cain said in a Fox News interview to be aired Monday.
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Gloria Cain accompanies her husband Herman as he announces his run as a Republican candidate for president in Atlanta in May.David Goldman / AP, file
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Claims of sexual harassment against Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain don't ring true because he "totally respects women," his wife Gloria Cain said in excerpts of a Fox News Channel interview released on Sunday.

Gloria Cain told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren: "I'm thinking he would have to have a split personality to do the things that were said."

Cain's wife of 43 years has remained largely hidden from public view as her husband seeks the party's nomination to run against President Barack Obama in 2012. She addressed the sexual harassment allegations that have roiled her husband's campaign in a rare interview to be aired Monday during the show "On the Record."

Gloria Cain said she can't believe the claims he harassed women when he led the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.

"To hear such graphic allegations and know that that would have been something that was totally disrespectful of her as a woman and I know that's not the person he is," she said. "He totally respects women."

Four women have now accused Herman Cain of sexually harassing them when he led the National Restaurant Association. He has denied wrongdoing and has been trying to move forward in his presidential campaign.

Cain's wife is often described as "gentle" and "the nicest woman you'll ever meet."

The two were married in 1968, have two adult children — a daughter, Melanie, and a son, Vincent — and grandchildren.