". One morning, Holly called Margolies out of the blue. I dont know if theres a lot of giveback.. My grandmother was a Sherlock Holmes of Yiddish song,, but she couldnt solve the mystery of antisemitism. 'Sometimes I feel it's the most selfish thing I've ever done in my entire life,' she says softly. Margolies told TODAY. 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. The theme of this years fundraiser was the next generation of female leaders. She arrived stubborn, a street kid from Saigon on the sidewalks of the Upper East Side, where Margolies rented an apartment for a time. Well, its the anniversary of when I moved into my house (along with Husband #1 and Sons #1 and 2) and it became our home. 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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!. She asks a lot. What she did next changed history. It's just so gratifying,' she says. I'm not getting anywhere." ", Vietnamese-born Vu Pham, 17, who was 5 when he and his family moved in, refers to Mezvinsky as "my other mother." Margolies, not unlike Bill Clinton, seems unable to separatethe personal from the political. Both girls have paid visits to their respective countries of origin as adult women. In this vein, the harshest indictment of Marjorie I hear comes from Mezvinskys former doctor Brad Fenton. Her dish always has to be full. When he thought it would help, a federal prosecutor toldthe New York Times, he would call and say, Im spending the weekend with the Clintons., Perhaps with this in mind, Margolies suddenly turns press-shy when asked too many questions about her personal rapport with the Clintons. But in 2016, heartbreak arrived. I was at his wedding, you know. After exactly three minutes and 30 seconds, Margolies stops talking and yields the floor to Madam Secretary, who proceeds to flesh out the story about the time she busted a move with a younger guy at Marc and Chelseas wedding. During his trial, it came out that he had tried to woo investors by touting Chelseas relationship with his son. Oh, and she had a family of five Vietnamese refugees live in the family house as well; she became the legal guardian to three of that familys children, and theyre all still part of the family. A couple times a week, the entire family sits down to dinner as one, large group, but for the most part meals are served in two sittings. "They picked Holly, who was 6. 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. 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. In 1973, an adoption agency sent her a photo of the 6-year-old she would name Holly, staring into the camera with a slight smile, holding a placard with her name and birth date. the mom of 11 kids shares how she became the first single woman in the U.S. believed to have adopted internationally. Especially in our out-of-control entitlements programs. Then the president called. She's so modern. After that, three key developments occurred. She was kind, the nurse said. She had campaigned with her husband, Ed, a former Iowa congressman, countless times, but had never thought seriously of running for office -- although she came close during the Thomas hearings. 'I think I was the first single woman in the United States to adopt a child,' says Margolies, 43, who has made the same claim during interviews on national TV and has never gotten a dispute. She appeared three times at the Summer Olympics (1972, 1976, 1980) and three times at the Commonwealth Games (1974, 1978, 1982). (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. And she was hilarious. It was terrific, she said. 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. Here is another column on the joys of getting older. It doesnt work all the time, though, and I was sure that I would lose. Lee Heh arrived from Korea in 1970 and was joined four years later by Holly from Vietnam. But that's the point. 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. An ex-journalist and former US Representative for the state of Pennsylvania has opened up about her journey to becoming a mother which happened in 1970, when she became the first single American woman to adopt a child internationally. ", "Holly had a very traumatic early childhood," Werth said. In the late 1990s, a job with a software company took her to Idaho, where she met her husband, Doug Werth. Of course, it was not without its moments to say the least, it didnt work all the time but it was terrific.. (See below.). The housekeeper and her son, 8, also live in, as will the baby she is expecting. It was an excuse to get over there, and it worked. But tonight, its her entire pitch. "There's a lot of tumult," Mezvinsky said, "but the upside is there is always someone there. I gave birth to two boys. If she didn't, she just didn't do it," Margolies said - but was unmistakably bright, and went to the University of Pennsylvania, her mother's alma mater, on a lacrosse scholarship. Three, her son Marc married Chelsea Clinton. "I'm trying to raise two children, and {pay for} school and clothes. The lease is up this weekend on the. Babka in Israel, part 4 relax, its the last part! Three years later, while covering a story in Vietnam, Margolies adopted Holly. And her staff is on her back to make fund-raising calls. She was a pickpocket.". Her. And I met this little girl who shook my hand and said 'how do you do'.'. "Theres just nothing like losing a child," Margolies said. NARBERTH, PA. -- Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky has a few things on her mind. Her assignment as a CBS correspondent soon opened a door she never imagined. Mr. Mezvinsky has four daughters from his previous marriage,. California residents do not sell my data request. At 6:30 p.m. on Halloween night, Marjorie Margoliess black SUV pulls up to a handsome colonial in the Philadelphia suburbs where a campaign fundraiser is being held in her honor. Lee Heh Margolies was 15 when she was chosen from hundreds of applicants to join a select group of 101 congressional pages in Washington, D.C. and first appeared on the December issue of People . 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. she asked. So, a family of five refugees from Vietnam moved in with the family. Margolies chronicled their experiences in the 1976 best-seller, They Came to Stay (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1976), the first of five books she has authored. They [have] a very congenial relationship, let me put it that way. Apparently she means the sleepovers thing literally. It has to do with caring and sharing and loving and watching a child grow and give.'. They say, How are the children?, What: Will talk about her new book, among other things. 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In 1970, Margolies was a TV reporter when an assignment took her to Korea for a series on adoption. At no point did I think I would win., It is of course impossible to know what would have happened had she not been the deciding vote on President Bill Clintons budget bill. "I was going to reconcile that and understand that thats what made me a better mother.". When she is portrayed as a benevolent soul who has taken in the world's lost children, Margolies gets squeamish. Today, Margolies spends as much time as she can with her 21 grandchildren. Holly Thi Werth was never without words. 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Marjorie is the most amazing connector of and developer of contacts, says one friend. ", Candidate Mezvinsky, milking the Year of the Woman to the max, touts what she privately calls "my crazy family" as the essence of family values and rages at those "trying to preach to me about what a family is.". 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. She was 48 and the mother of two boys whom she cherished, Jude and Trent Werth. 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Eventually, the adoption went . 2 people found this helpful Helpful (The two officially started dating in 2005, though Goldberg says that they kept it undercover for many years before that. "And it was fun. 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? "I got myself to the point that I was not going to feel guilty, being at work and not being with the kids, or being with the kids and not being at work," she said. All of a sudden, I kind of turned around and said 'there's got to be more to life.' Iactually have no idea how many parts this is going to end up being, so I apologize in advance. Ms. Margolies runs with her two young daughters. MOUNTAIN AVE. MONTCLAIR, NJ Seller: KINARD, DAVID M. & ELIZABETH F. 221 NO. Sure enough that is exactly the theme of Margoliess riff at the fundraiser, when she refers to the time Bill phoned from the Oval Office to beg for her vote. Friends and relatives filed through Holly's room in hospice care during the last months of her life. "We have bagels and tuna fish," she hollers at campaign headquarters, waving everyone over to a make-it-yourself lunch spread on her desk.