She tried to rest after a life spent on the go. She asks a lot. It's just so gratifying,' she says. Holly. Me. WASHINGTON -- A single woman adopting a child hardly raises an eyebrow these days. Rumors of romance followed. She is the former Marjorie Margolies, Emmy Award-winning correspondent for WRC-TV from 1975 until 1990, more recently of the "Today" show. ", Vietnamese-born Vu Pham, 17, who was 5 when he and his family moved in, refers to Mezvinsky as "my other mother." In this vein, the harshest indictment of Marjorie I hear comes from Mezvinskys former doctor Brad Fenton. Ms. Margolies was born in Philadelphia in 1942; she and her family moved to suburban Baltimore for her fathers job when she was 8. ", 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.". 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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. She quit working to spend more time with her sons. At weddings, at funerals, at family dinners and raucous parties, she would walk into a room, assess the situation, and say something that cut right to the crux of things. 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. But sometimes its just literally true. Marjorie Margolies is at the World Conference on Women in Beijing in the fall of 1995. But when Hillary took the stage to praise a woman running for elected office in Pennsylvania, it was gubernatorial candidate Allyson Schwartz, the congresswoman Margolies is vying to replace. "Were there any redeeming qualities? It was an excuse to get over there, and it worked. She told her adoptive mother, the former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Margolies, how to begin her eulogy: "Tell them, 'She was always my favorite child.' The housekeeper and her son, 8, also live in, as will the baby she is expecting. Two, her now-ex husband went to jail for running a Ponzi scheme. Margolies was sitting in the audience and exchanged hellos with Clinton at the event. 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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. Her dish always has to be full. She then adopted a half-American, half-Vietnamese child, Holly, now 18. She grew up with stability and normality and she woke up and said, 'I want more.' "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. In 2007, Doug traveled to Vietnam by himself - "kind of a scout trip," he said - and found family members who spoke of a tough little girl with a sharp sense of humor. Annenberg Conversations: Joe Kennedy III and Marjorie Margolies 'As I was getting ready to leave Korea, they said, 'we've picked a little girl for you.' Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (born June 21, 1942), American - Prabook Former US Rep. reveals was first single woman to adopt internationally [1] He later spent five years as head of East Coast research for Fox Films, a predecessor company of 20th Century . In 1970, Margolies was a TV reporter when an assignment took her to Korea for. 'I got way too involved in the story!' Chelsea Clinton's journalist (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. "I didnt know if and when I would marry. But when unmarried Marjorie Margolies picked up six-year-old Lee Heh 15 years ago in Korea, it simply wasn't done. The other day, Facebook reminded me that this new generation of humans will never know the joys of having two keys for your car. The boat family was supposed to stay at most one year, but have stayed seven. 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. Especially in our out-of-control entitlements programs. Then the president called. And I told him, Your first born.. It was there that Marc and Chelsea met for the first time as teenagers. I dont know if theres a lot of giveback.. Her house burned down over the summer and is not yet rebuilt. Lee Heh would become her daughter. Holly Thi Werth was never without words. 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. Son #3 and I decided to take a cab to Rechaviah, a Jerusalem neighborhood vastly different from the one where my Son #2 and DIL #2 live. PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - As we count down to Mother's Day, an incredible story about one woman's journey to become a mother. 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. Other rewards followed. Holly Werth | Obituaries | mtexpress.com "(She) stuck out her hand (and) said, 'How do you do,' and that was the only thing she knew how to say," Margolies told TODAYs Hoda Kotb on Tuesday. She was born Ho Thi Thu Nga in Nha Trang, Vietnam, to a Vietnamese woman and an American serviceman. "Can you talk to me about how I was as a little girl?" The personal which she got to in part through the professional is that she is the mother of 11 children. She was working as an occasional correspondent for four NBC programs, including "Today." Can you really think the Clintons were happy to have their only daughter caught up in this complicated and not fully ethical family? The degree to which the Clintons dive intoand quite possibly make the differencein Margoliess campaign might depend on the answer to that question. 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. 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. / CBS Philadelphia. She met her half-brother, who recognized a scar on her leg from a long-forgotten motorcycle ride. Marjorie Margolies: 1st Single US Woman To Adopt Internationally - Today Watch the video to see more of Jessica Kartalija's interview with Margolies. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. As one of the swindled told the Philadelphia Inquirerat the time, Who expects to be taken to the cleaners when youve got an ex-congressman whose wife is running for the Senate? Mezvinsky eventually got in so deep that he fell for one of the original Nigerian-guy-needs-cash email scams, losing up to an estimated $3 million just to try to feed the scheme. "Now this is a beautiful baby," she cooed and segued on to the next voter. Village View: Marjorie Margolies' latest effort is a guidebook for Babka in Israel, part 4 relax, its the last part! All of a sudden, I kind of turned around and said 'there's got to be more to life.' (All photos courtesy Marjorie Margolies). In 1970, Margolies was a TV reporter when an assignment took her to Korea for. Their relationship, he insists, is far more important in Marjories life than whether she wins or loses this race.. Ms. Margolies shakes hands with President Bill Clinton. She won five Emmys. Margolies follows this remark by insisting that she doesnt know whether Hillary is running for president, before concluding with an anecdote about the time Albright busted a move with a younger guy at Marc and Chelseas wedding. But in 2016, heartbreak arrived. Three weeks after Hillarys speech in Philadelphia, Margoliess organization, Womens Campaign International, hosted a gala for its 15th anniversary. When she still was a reporter, Ms. Margolies did a series of stories on international adoption. ', Margolies, who had done a TV series on hard to place adoptive children, asked WCAU-TV if she could do a story in Korea, 'because there were lots of kids who were coming from there.'. Timeless Lessons from the Frontlines of Motherhood., Get The Jewish Standard Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories The presence of the Clintons may just amplify inevitable charges of carpetbaggery from Boyle and her other opponents. Margolies became the first unmarried U.S. citizen to adopt a foreign child. Dale Russakoff is the author of "The Prize," published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Margolies and Mezvinsky also have two biological children, Mark, 7, and Andrew, 3. 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. She has not attempted to hide her liberal Democratic leanings in a 2-1 Republican district. She was a really good pickpocket, and she smoked. I agree with nothing else that she believes in, but good for her, she said about the former House Republican from Wyomings work on the January 6 committee. 'And How Are the Children?' | New Jersey Jewish News He is a member of the House Judiciary and Government Operations Committees and serves on the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee. Was there anything particularly Jewish about her life? Snares Daley NEW YORK - Lee Heh Margolies, 11-year-old stepdaughter of Rep. Ed Mezvinsky, D-Iowa, Is an accredite. ), What about Liz Cheney? Ms. Margolies runs with her two young daughters. Her TV series, airing on NBC stations Christmas week, 'Finding Your Home, Discovering Your Heart', traces Lee Heh's return to Korea with Margolies to discover the child's roots.'. MOUNTAIN AVE. MONTCLAIR, NJ Seller: KINARD, DAVID M. & ELIZABETH F. 221 NO. The first single US woman to adopt internationally shares her - AOL Lee Heh came from Korea, and her adjustment was seamless. Marc was not in favor of Marjorie running, she tells me. It doesnt work all the time, though, and I was sure that I would lose. She, I mean she smoked at 6. Then the family returned. Marjorie Margolies stands at a podium; the presidents seal hangs from it. '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. Copyright 2023 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. ), In 1997, several years after their first Renaissance Weekend together, Chelsea Clinton decided to attend Stanford University, where Marc was already enrolled. 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's very plugged in to their emotions, but they could wear pajamas to school and it wouldn't bother Margie if it didn't bother them. I realized the challenges.". She spent a long time looking into adoption in Korea; literally, as I was ready to leave, they said, We have picked a little girl for you. That little girl, 7-year-old Lee Heh, became Ms. Margolies first child; Ms. Margolies is said to have been the first single American woman to adopt a child internationally. Margolies is already being painted as the right-wing candidate running in her newly redrawn district, which is now considerably less suburban than it was 20 years ago. Margolies led the U.S. delegation; then [] Department: The Feminist: Marjorie Margolies - Page 2 of 5 In 1976, she wrote a book on her two daughters, 'They Came To Stay'. She was upfront with her bosses on her dual motive: 'I wasn't kidding anybody. "When she wanted something, she would get it - but then she would share.". Her decision to run puts the Clintons in a difficult spot. Susan King, WJLA commentator and anchor, recalls meeting Mezvinsky in the 1970s when both were assigned to a stakeout. Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction | Kirkus Reviews ', 'But my overwhelming feeling is that it has been so satisfying, and the kids are so wonderful. She had been the first single woman in U.S. history to adopt a kid from a foreign country: Lee Heh, a South Korean girl, who eventually became one of 11 children Margolies would consider her. You get the check, but its not the right amount. State representative Brendan Boyle is thought to have a lock on the urban part of the district, and state senator Daylin Leach is the favorite among progressive voters. He had four daughters from a previous marriage. She went to Quaker school in Wynnewood and threw herself into athletics. A friend from Eugene, Oregon, who worked with an adoption agency there bumped into Ms. Margolies while she was working on a story in Vietnam. The lease is up this weekend on the. 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. Theres no question that the scandal and its messy fallout were damaging to Margolies as well. But she has at least one not insignificant thing going for hera very personal tie to a very powerful family. While handing out campaign literature last weekend, he said: "My other mother is Vietnamese and very conservative. She joked that now, they would have no choice but to cherish all the tacky gifts she had given them over the years. 'I had spent so many years just thinking about me and how I was going to get from Point A to Point B in my own career. "She had this great energy. She met babysitters who told stories of her cajoling candy from American GIs, and family members who remembered hiding under the bed with an infant Holly as bombs fell on a nearby Army base in Nha Trang. Edition of Quad-City Times. California residents do not sell my data request. What devastated Fenton, however, was not the outcome of the trial, but the fact that Margolies, who maintained that she was oblivious about her husbands dealings, signed onto the lawsuit as well. 'I ran into a lot of opposition. "I started to do a series on Korean orphans adopted in this area," she said. But the fundraisers VIP cachet is representative less of Margoliess political potency than of her connections. That happened many, many years later. And she was very, very funny. She says she will vote for Mezvinsky. the mom of 11 kids shares how she became the first single woman in the U.S. believed to have adopted internationally. IE 11 is not supported. Montclair residents Selma Avdicevic and Lee Heh Margolies, two members of the steering committee for the Essex group, were surprised but excited by how quickly interest in the organization has. 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. 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. She was brave. Lee Heh Margolies, Age 59 aka Elleheh Margolies, Lee Hem Margolies, Margolies Lee, L Margolies Current Address: NNME Erwin Park, Montclair, NJ Past Addresses: New York NY, Montclair NJ +5 more Phone Number: (973) 632- BYJX +9 phones Email Address: See available information UNLOCK PROFILE Phone & Email (10) All Addresses (8) Family (5) Social Court But at some level, she has always done it this way. Sign Up She was a street child. Serving as guardians for this massive brood can be a costly endeavor, she admits,but cares little about the expense. Her greatest feat of Rolodex-padding, though, might have been losing her re-election in 1994. "There's a lot of tumult," Mezvinsky said, "but the upside is there is always someone there. She was a pickpocket, she smoked. There was anger there, still, and fear. Both girls have paid visits to their respective countries of origin as adult women. Today, Margolies spends as much time as she can with her 21 grandchildren. But there was a lot of buzz about it being the Year of the Woman, she added. She feels out of touch with her mother (they haven't talked since last night). ", 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. 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. Should a Holocaust documentary have a happy ending? My dad was tikkun-ish, she said. When Holly came, it was like receiving a letter bomb. The theme of this years fundraiser was the next generation of female leaders. Margoliess career in electoral politics lasted only one term, but it ended twice. Margolies told TODAY. ". Absolutely hilarious," Margolies said. Marjorie Margolies | Annenberg (Marc was her first biological child; his brother Andrew, now an artist, was born a few years later.) She gave speeches at memorials that made everyone cry and laugh in the same breath. Northern New Jerseys Jewish Voice Since 1931, Get The Jewish Standard Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories, www.jccotp.org/ programs/lectures-learning, Israel Story looks at the countrys founding document in Teaneck program. Marjorie Margoliess son married Chelsea Clinton. My father, who was a gem, got a job at RCA in the Philadelphia area, but he commuted there so I could finish high school, she said. She gave toasts that prompted acquaintances to ask whether she was a stand-up comedian. The seeds of WCI were planted in 1995 in Beijing, at the United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women. Mr. Mezvinsky has four daughters from his previous marriage,. | Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo. Leo Margulies - Wikipedia 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. Lee Heh could get only a student visa, "and she was the youngest student ever to get one." Eventually, the adoption went . We just lost a lot of stuff.' Here is another column on the joys of getting older. '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. NARBERTH, PA. -- Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky has a few things on her mind. Marjorie Margolies: Roe Decision May Make 2022 Another 'Year of the A year later, while reporting for an NBC affiliate in New York on the Vietnamese "baby lift," she came to Washington to interview then-Rep. Edward Mezvinsky, fell instantly in love and married him. 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. Life lessons from an Israeli cab driver. As Cuomo announced hed fight Jew-hatred, the Jews decided to attack him ratherthan the antisemites. 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 . Shes like Zelig. Even in this new congressional race, many of her donors out of the gate have been classic FOB types that shes had little to do with for the last two decades, and maybe never had anything to do with in the first place: Lanny Davis, Vernon Jordan, Harold Ickes, Bob Rubin. Holly changed professions frequently - writing for television, radio production, office management for an architectural firm, and once, writing letters to irate guests at an Arizona luxury ranch, the latter job a vessel for her scathing wit. Four years later, she adopted Holly, then 6, from Vietnam. But eventually she decided, as she had children of her own - Trent, 10, and Jude, 12 - that she wanted to meet her birth family. Vote for me!, Whether the scandal still qualifies as a career-ender more than a decade later depends on whom you ask. Three years later, while covering a story in Vietnam, Margolies adopted Holly. the mom of 11 kids shares how she became the first single woman in the U.S. believed to have adopted internationally. Lee Heh, now 21, was hers, but Margolies didn't stop there. I was at his bris!, OPTICS: Chelsea's Other Half (click to view gallery). 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. "Margie has always kept me busy," said her mother, now a volunteer for her daughter's campaign. Lee Heh, docile and eager to . Through it all, Margolies never gave up her professional pursuits. When she is portrayed as a benevolent soul who has taken in the world's lost children, Margolies gets squeamish. Someone asks if I can do something, and I usually figure out a way to do it, so I usually say yes. Some are parents; she has 21 grandchildren so far. Slowly, Holly adjusted. 'Sometimes I feel it's the most selfish thing I've ever done in my entire life,' she says softly. Ms. Margolies considered running a few other times, for a few other seats and got as far as a primary, but her elective career ended in 1994. In interviews with me and other publications, shell insist that her candidacy is not premised on her relationship with the Clintons. She was 6. "As a Homo sapiens without an X and a Y chromosome, I was not represented. The whole family gathers at Marc Mezvinskys wedding to Chelsea Clinton. He always said, If you can change someones life in a positive way, then do it., The title of her book, And How Are the Children? sounds Jewish. I knew that it was something I truly wanted to do. delphia, where her father retired as a purchasing agent for the RCA Corporation. I love this!. She learned English fast, and comedic timing faster. 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. "They picked Holly, who was 6. I'm pretty independent, I guess. Leah Margulies - Project Director - LawHelp.org/NY | LinkedIn Succeed2gether has an active board which meets every few months to discuss aims and progress for the year. 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.). My grandmother was a Sherlock Holmes of Yiddish song,, but she couldnt solve the mystery of antisemitism.
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