Holly Thi Werth met her husband, Doug, when a job with a software company took her to Idaho. In 1970, Margolies was a TV reporter when an assignment took her to Korea for. Former US Rep. reveals was first single woman to adopt internationally Personal details about Lee include: political affiliation is currently a registered Democrat; ethnicity is Caucasian; and religious views are listed as Christian. "Middle-income people are getting screwed royally," Keane said. Marjorie Margolies knows a thing or two about parenting, and in her new memoir, "And How Are The Children?" (The two officially started dating in 2005, though Goldberg says that they kept it undercover for many years before that. When she still was a reporter, Ms. Margolies did a series of stories on international adoption. "I was the only one who had nursed," she said, "so I knew it wouldn't hurt if I squeezed that teat. They weren't asking my questions.". Ms. Margolies was born in Philadelphia in 1942; she and her family moved to suburban Baltimore for her fathers job when she was 8. And Ed just followed., (Margolies declined to comment on the Fenton lawsuit or the bankruptcy case. All of a sudden, I kind of turned around and said 'there's got to be more to life.' Her assignment as a CBS correspondent soon opened a door she never imagined. "Today" anchor Katie Couric, formerly of WRC, recalled Mezvinsky setting her up with a heart transplant surgeon she'd just done a story about. Susan King, WJLA commentator and anchor, recalls meeting Mezvinsky in the 1970s when both were assigned to a stakeout. Theres no question that the scandal and its messy fallout were damaging to Margolies as well. Her assignment as a CBS correspondent soon opened a door she never imagined. And given that Chelsea has said she hopes 2014 will be the year of the baby, Margoliess ties to the Clintons might soon become even stronger. At this point, winning is anything but certain. 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Margolies, an Emmy-winning TV journalist, the first unmarried American woman to be permitted to adopt foreign children, and an author is now the founder and president of Women's Campaign International. They had two sons, Jude and Trent. ', 'But my overwhelming feeling is that it has been so satisfying, and the kids are so wonderful. View Leah Margulies' profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. She was kind, the nurse said. I dont gamble, but I do take chances, she said. When Margolies was elected to the House in 1992, she was in her early 50s, and her last name was Margolies-Mezvinsky. "Were there any redeeming qualities? She gave speeches at memorials that made everyone cry and laugh in the same breath. Three, her son Marc married Chelsea Clinton. I was at his bris!, OPTICS: Chelsea's Other Half (click to view gallery). She gave speeches at memorials that made everyone cry and laugh in the same breath. Two years after she adopted Holly, in 1975, Margolies married former U.S. Rep. Edward Mezvinsky. The last time I was here was three years, two months and 25 pounds ago. As Cuomo announced hed fight Jew-hatred, the Jews decided to attack him ratherthan the antisemites. It was terrific, she said. And he asked what it would take to have me vote for it. Instead, she said, she voted for the budget because she thought that although it had many problems, it still absolutely had to pass. "So we had six girls and we got married and then we had two boys. When I float the possibility that some of her donors dont know their district has moved, Margolies belts out a deep-throated laugh and says, Thank God!. Lee Heh is married with Mom having financed her 14-bridesmaid wedding. But eventually she decided, as she had children of her own - Trent, 10, and Jude, 12 - that she wanted to meet her birth family. Snares Daley NEW YORK - Lee Heh Margolies, 11-year-old stepdaughter of Rep. Ed Mezvinsky, D-Iowa, Is an accredite. ", To which Mezvinsky responds with practiced umbrage: "It's about time men like Jon Fox stopped making me feel guilty about having worked and been a mother at the same time. JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, How much: $12 for JCC members; $15 for nonmembers. the mom of 11 kids shares how she became the first single woman in the U.S. believed to have adopted internationally. 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That Margolies generally resists dishing about the Clintons doesnt mean theyre secretly best friends. But Mezvinsky hopes the desire to reject career politicians is more powerful than that, and she has won the endorsements of all three major daily newspapers in the district. ), In 1997, several years after their first Renaissance Weekend together, Chelsea Clinton decided to attend Stanford University, where Marc was already enrolled. I gave birth to two boys. She's so modern. ", "She doesn't use up psychological energy on things a lot of us think are indispensable," said longtime Washington friend Nancy Chasen, "like whether your kids' socks match or whether they got a bad haircut. Do they ally themselves with a flawed political candidate ahead of Hillarys likely presidential run, or do they turn their backs on their family? 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She was a street child. One, President Bill Clinton personally convinced her to cast a tie-breaking vote on his infamous 1993 budget bill that cost the Pennsylvania congresswoman her job. Inside the party, Margolies is in her element, and not only because shes engulfed in a familiar sea of air kisses and cheese plates. I've juggled pretty well.". The adoption agencies basically said no. Seven-year-old Lee Heh Kyung was a parent's dream of loving and intelligent cooperation--so much so that the few ripples on the surface (her fear of speaking Korean, her worry about her Oriental eyes) were perhaps too easily smoothed over. Executive Board - Succeed2gether Margolies became a network correspondent, then got into politics and was elected to Congress and met a man with four daughters of his own. Now, on weekends, she and her brood don bright red T-shirts emblazoned "MMM for Congress" -- the shirt flaps around Andrew's knees, but is a clean fit on Holly -- pile into a van and campaign across the affluent Main Line and middle-class outer suburbs of Philadelphia where Mezvinsky is running against Republican Montgomery County Commissioner Jon D. Fox in the heavily Republican district of retiring Rep. Lawrence Coughlin. Other rewards followed. The housekeeper and her son, 8, also live in, as will the baby she is expecting. Holly Thi Werth (Margolies) passed away on May 3, 2016, in her home in Boise with her family at her bedside. 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", Vietnamese-born Vu Pham, 17, who was 5 when he and his family moved in, refers to Mezvinsky as "my other mother." The brash girl from the big city and the soft-spoken lawyer from the rural Midwest clicked, unexpectedly. She worries that the housekeeper, who has a problem pregnancy, may not be up to driving her son Andrew, 10, to his eye therapy appointment. "I started to do a series on Korean orphans adopted in this area," she said. Her consistent response to questions asked by her creditors about the disposition of her assets is lack of knowledge or my husband handled it, a mantra that is completely at odds with her public persona, background, and accomplishments, the judge wrote. I'm the outsider. It was sort of like that was the final affirmation that you know there couldnt have been truly heartfelt, deep personal relationships., Dating back to the time Margolies invited him and his wife to Renaissance Weekend for the first time, the lawsuit confirmed his nagging feeling that everything she did was driven by political calculation. I dont know if theres a lot of giveback.. Holly Thi Werth (Margolies) passed away on May 3, 2016, in her home in Boise with her family at her bedside. Chelsea Clinton. Kait Hanson is a lifestyle reporter for TODAY. . People like comeback stories., Her son Marc apparently disagrees. While an internal pollshowed Margolies as the frontrunner in August, its unclear what her natural voter base is. Mezvinsky says afterward. The couple would go on to have two biological children. We just lost a lot of stuff.' Margulies was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, but was raised in Norwalk, Connecticut. It all began when Marjorie Margolies got a reporting assignment in Korea. | AP Photo. Mr. Mezvinsky has four daughters from his previous marriage,. And I thought about how important it was that we get in in numbers that can make a difference, to change the face and the body of that body. A huge thank you to Lee Heh Margolies for serving as the Chair of Impact100 Essex's Events Committee for the past 3 years. "There's a lot of tumult," Mezvinsky said, "but the upside is there is always someone there. The youngest children flocked to Holly. Her communications director, now CNN anchor Jake Tapper, was the son of the family pediatrician, and got the job when he tired of film school in Los Angeles. Three weeks after Hillarys speech in Philadelphia, Margoliess organization, Womens Campaign International, hosted a gala for its 15th anniversary. Alas, Holly passed away mid-May 2016 following a three-year battle with cervical cancer. "I had done lots of stories on hard-to-place kids," Margolies said - kids from war zones, kids who had grown up on the streets. Holly Werth, daughter of former congresswoman, leaves a legacy filled Margolies became the first unmarried U.S. citizen to adopt a foreign child. A half-dead economy, the confirmation hearings of Justice Clarence Thomas and an insurgent electorate across the country have launched hundreds of candidacies that otherwise never would have been contemplated this year. But at some level, she has always done it this way. You get the check, but its not the right amount. In 2002, Ed would plead guilty to 31 counts of bank fraudhe had bilked more than $10 million from unsuspecting investors, including $309,000 from his 86-year-old mother-in-law. Three years later, while covering a story in Vietnam, Margolies adopted Holly. Although shes deemed it appropriately transactional to name-drop the machatunimat political fundraisers, her longtime consultant and campaign fixer, Ken Smukler, says that certain details are out of bounds. Sales Information for 221 NO. MOUNTAIN AVENUE - NJParcels.com How many other female Democratic candidates who stood on the podium at the Democratic Convention were seized with this thought: "I thought about what Barbara Jordan had said the night before, invoking Thomas Jefferson and talking about women being in the halls and councils of power. The presence of the Clintons may just amplify inevitable charges of carpetbaggery from Boyle and her other opponents. Department: The Feminist: Marjorie Margolies - Page 2 of 5 Fox, who has been in state and local politics almost all his adult life, has tried to turn the Year of the Outsider dynamic back on Mezvinsky, saying of her 15 years as a reporter at WRC, "She's very much the insider from Washington, D.C. Lee Heh would become her daughter. The reason thats funny is that one of her sons, Marc Mezvinsky, is married to Bill and Hillary Clintons only child, Chelsea Clinton. And I told him, Your first born.. The whole family gathers at Marc Mezvinskys wedding to Chelsea Clinton. Life lessons from an Israeli cab driver. I felt the budget cuts didnt go far enough, she wrote in her 1994 book A Womans Place: The Freshmen Women Who Changed the Face of Congress. She made you feel incredibly lazy. There are days when she threatens to turn the Year of the Woman into the Year of the Jewish Mother, running an underdog campaign against a career pol that's as heavy on hugs and kisses as on political strategy. Her. But a determined Margolies, then a reporter with WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, carved out her own path to success. I knew some kids were sent back. MOUNTAIN AVE. MONTCLAIR, NJ 2000-04-27 Deed Recorded: Book: 05698 Page: 00363. There is such a nice spirit here; sometimes maniacal.'. Their relationship, he insists, is far more important in Marjories life than whether she wins or loses this race.. Margolies, not unlike Bill Clinton, seems unable to separatethe personal from the political. She, I mean she smoked at 6. Margolies was then a television reporter for NBC Philadelphia, and, a few years earlier, had become the first single American woman to adopt a foreign child: Lee Heh, from South Korea. "I knew I wanted to parent," Margolies said. The Clinton-in-Law - POLITICO Magazine I picked up the phone and said hello, then heard his voice, which sounded tired and drained, she wrote. The nurse on the other end gasped when Margolies introduced herself. Now, Ms. Margolies is, among many other things, a founder and the president of the Womens Campaign International, which, according to its publicity, provides empowerment training for women around the world; shes also an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and a fellow at the Fels Institute of Government there. "Then I decided that all these years I'd been saying to my kids: 'You've got to be prepared to lose before you can win. 'I started to look when I was 25,' remembers Margolies, now a reporter with WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. She shuttles between the capital and her home in Philadelphia. She gets into long talks with voters, wants to know all the family circumstances that may influence their votes, then steers reporters traveling with her to the people she finds most quotable. Welcome to a day in the life of the Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky for Congress campaign, where getting elected is hardly the candidate's only worry. Especially in our out-of-control entitlements programs. Then the president called. She has Lee Heh and Holly, her ex-husband brought four more daughters into their blended family, they adopted three more Vietnamese sons, and she gave birth to two more sons. Margoliess decision to run undoubtedly puts the Clintons, eyeing a race of their own, in a tough spot, writes van Zuylen-Wood. Still, its better to be safe than sorry. (When I float the possibility that some of her donors dont know their district has moved, Margolies belts out a deep-throated laugh and says, Thank God!) And although she has gamely begun to Etch-a-Sketchshe told me President Obamas $800 billion stimulus wasnt big enough, a stark contrast to her no vote on Clintons $16 billion version in 1993it might yet be her tony Main Line persona that does her in. Book They Came To Stay, by Marjorie Margolies and Ruth Gruber, about adoption of a Korean girl and a Vietnamese girl by Margolies, revd by Betty Jean Lifton; illus . But she has at least one not insignificant thing going for hera very personal tie to a very powerful family. Please enter valid email address to continue. Currently, Lee is single. She has not attempted to hide her liberal Democratic leanings in a 2-1 Republican district. Holly was 5 at the time. While handing out campaign literature last weekend, he said: "My other mother is Vietnamese and very conservative. In 1975, she married Congressman Ed Mezvinsky, who had four daughters of his own. Can you really think the Clintons were happy to have their only daughter caught up in this complicated and not fully ethical family?, But theres a flip side to the relentless networking, a sense among certain of her old friends and colleagues that her relationships are simply a means to an end. We thank our board members for their support. That gnomic sentiment has been around at least since the early 1970s, and just about every possible shade of meaning that could be hung on it has been. The In-Law - The New York Times How to register: Go to www.jccotp.org/ programs/lectures-learningor call the JCC at (201) 569-7900. The. I signed his ketubah. 'And How Are the Children?' | The Jewish Standard She was just so easy, her mother said. When Democrat Mezvinsky was defeated for reelection the next year, the family moved to the Philadelphia suburbs, where Margolies and Mezvinsky had two children of their own -- Marc, now 14, and Andrew -- and Margolies commuted to Washington for 12 years to work part time for WRC. Marc was not in favor of Marjorie running, she tells me. There is no playing favorites with the couple's natural children, says Margolies, stressing that, after all, Lee Heh and Holly were there before her own came along. Why do you want to do this, Mom? she says, paraphrasing him, Why do you want to open us up again? (Marc Mezvinsky did not respond to a request for comment.). She made jokes that had half the room gasping in shock, the other half gasping with laughter. In 1970, Margolies was a TV reporter when an assignment took her to Korea for. Timeless Lessons from the Frontlines of Motherhood., Get The Jewish Standard Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories Margolies was booted in 1994, after a single term. Someone asks if I can do something, and I usually figure out a way to do it, so I usually say yes. A friend of mine called Hillary and said, Why do you think she wants to do this? And Hillary said something that was very interesting. Holly Thi Werth was never without words. (She was fine, and the case was dismissed.) My checks have been in the mail (electronically) for 17 years, but what about my stepsons and grandkids? She tried to get up and leave with them sometimes, even toward the end. I dont know, Margolies says, when I put it to her, over hors doeuvres at a restaurant before the Albright fundraiser. the mom of 11 kids shares how she became the first single woman in the U.S. believed to have adopted internationally. Holly Werth | Obituaries | mtexpress.com In 1970, Margolies was a TV reporter when an assignment took her to Korea for. Its hard to sum up Ms. Margolies life. Reflecting back on parenting, Margolies said she loved the curiosity and challenges. Essex women pool resources to make an 'Impact' - North Jersey Media Group There is something about Chelsea's mother-in-law - The Korea Herald Unlike Marc and Chelsea, reports Margoliess friend and former congressional staffer Arlene Halpernwho was therethey didnt spend the night. I think its old news. The winter after the vote, she and the family were invited for the first time to the intellectual house party that was the famous annual Renaissance Weekend in Hilton Head, S.C., a New Years ritual for the first family. At 50, she looks more like someone's daughter than someone's mother, which is odd, because she is the mother, stepmother and legal guardian of 11 children, ages 10 to 28 -- a family she began building at age 28 when she became the first single American woman to adopt a foreign child. Last night I came back to the house after being away on a story, and my 18-year-old started to yell, 'Mommy's home', and the younger ones followed suit and then the 3-year-old started shouting, as they all ran down the stairs. She appeared three times at the Summer Olympics (1972, 1976, 1980) and three times at the Commonwealth Games (1974, 1978, 1982). "Sometimes, it was political. My grandmother was a Sherlock Holmes of Yiddish song,, but she couldnt solve the mystery of antisemitism. MOUNTAIN AVE. MONTCLAIR, NJ Seller: KINARD, DAVID M. & ELIZABETH F. 221 NO. the mom of 11 kids shares how she became the first single woman in the U.S. believed to have adopted internationally. The seeds of WCI were planted in 1995 in Beijing, at the United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women. 'As I was getting ready to leave Korea, they said, 'we've picked a little girl for you.' Sons Mark and Andrew are the only children living at home, although others come for weekends and a Vietnamese refugee family of five has been in residence since 1979. Margolies was sitting in the audience and exchanged hellos with Clinton at the event. Some days it's her personal life that enhances her professional one: Not long ago, on a campaign visit to a 4-H Club fair in Creamery, Pa., Mezvinsky found herself in a goat-milking contest with a slew of male politicians. Rumors of romance followed. She gave toasts that prompted acquaintances to ask whether she was a stand-up comedian. And her staff is on her back to make fund-raising calls. ". And she was hilarious. She went to Quaker school in Wynnewood and threw herself into athletics. But when unmarried Marjorie Margolies picked up six-year-old Lee Heh 15 years ago in Korea, it simply wasn't done. A group of women came to me and asked me to run. She thought about it, calculated the odds of winning but I always told my kids that you cant win if you arent prepared to lose and decided to try, although I had to give up a job that I really liked, she said. And other tales of the war between Ukraine and Russia and of Russias new overlord, China, Call the doctor! Fox's campaign consultant, Eddie Mahe, said polls show his man leading by double digits -- Mezvinsky's campaign is not polling -- enough to survive even long coattails to Democrat Bill Clinton. Former US Representative Marjorie Margolies, 79, claims to be the first single woman in the US to adopt internationally (pictured in 2016) She adopted Lee Heh from Korea in 1970 and Holly. 'And How Are the Children?' | New Jersey Jewish News When I ask the native Northeast Philadelphian Boyle what differentiates him from his opponents, Margolies in particular, he says hes the only candidate who isnt a millionaire or married to one. Put another way: Hes a first-generation Irish-American who grew up in a row house in Northeast Philly; she once sued US Airways after a bag fell on her head. Holly. (Since her vote, John McCains thumbs-down on the Senates last-ditch attempt to kill Obamacare in 2018 has been added to that list. "She would see something she wanted in a restaurant window, and lie down in front of the door until we went in," Margolies said. California residents do not sell my data request. She writes about that bitter experience, too, in her book. She endured grueling chemotherapy sessions. Sign Up now to stay up to date with all of the latest news from TCM. "They lived with us for 25 years," Margolies shared. "Can you talk to me about how I was as a little girl?" She joked that now, they would have no choice but to cherish all the tacky gifts she had given them over the years. Though her birth mother, Ho Thi Hieu, had died 10 years before, Holly "learned her mother loved her and didn't want to give her away," Margolies said. Dale Russakoff is the author of "The Prize," published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Terrified by rumors that North Vietnamese soldiers would kill children like her daughter as they pushed into Saigon, her mother sent her to an orphanage. Strands of the personal and the political are so entwined as to be impossible to detangle in Marjorie Margolies life not that she ever would want to do that and theyre woven through her new book, And How Are the Children? she asked drily on a video Margolies took of that trip. She was brave. Me. That night of the vote, Clinton called me. That parts true. When Albright and Margolies stop posing for pictures with donors, Margolies, now 71, and impeccable in pearls and an elegant floral jacket, takes the mic and explains why shes running. Marjorie Margolies stands at a podium; the presidents seal hangs from it. Ms. Margolies runs with her two young daughters. The other day, Facebook reminded me that this new generation of humans will never know the joys of having two keys for your car.

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