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'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. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Leah's . | Sue Rubel/AP Photo. She loved being a journalist and to be fair, it loved her back. Its unclear who decided to keep the black sheep out of view, but its probably safe to assume the Clintons werent altogether displeased. (The two officially started dating in 2005, though Goldberg says that they kept it undercover for many years before that. Was there anything particularly Jewish about her life? Chelsea Clinton. I called him [Bill] when I was thinking about running, and I told him what was happening and he was very warm and very embracing., Finally, she relents a bit and, adopting Bills accent, mimics his reaction to the news: I love this! she drawls. At 25 and single, her own efforts to adopt and start a family were foiled until another assignment, the pertinent topic: hard to place children. Class: residential (per ft 2) Non-usable Sale for Assessment. Her house burned down over the summer and is not yet rebuilt. She, I mean she smoked at 6. My dad would have loved this particular Danish, and I really hope that wherever he is, he is able to enjoy her as much as I am. Currently, Lee is single. She quit working to spend more time with her sons. When Chelsea and Marc got married in 2010, it seemed almost arranged, a dynastic American political marriage in the tradition of Nixons daughter marrying Eisenhowers grandson (another buddy of Margies, by the way). "If I'm elected, it'll be because I'm different and people want me to be different for them," said Mezvinsky. She was always the most fun to be around.". 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. May 3, 2022 / 5:58 PM 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. 'I ran into a lot of opposition. The night after the fundraiser I attended with Margolies, Hillary Clinton arrived in Philadelphia to give a speech to the Pennsylvania Conference for Women. She went to Quaker school in Wynnewood and threw herself into athletics. Some are parents; she has 21 grandchildren so far. Some of them are adopted, some are stepchildren, and some were born to her. Life lessons from an Israeli cab driver. 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 was a pickpocket, she smoked. 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. Someone asks if I can do something, and I usually figure out a way to do it, so I usually say yes. 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. Her son, Mark, is married to their daughter, Chelsea. Then I married. Jake! she says, when I bring up her old crew. After Holly died, Margolies, tying up loose ends, called the hospice service that had cared for her daughter in her last days. Two years out of prison and still on probation, Ed Mezvinsky did indeed attend, but according to several of Margoliess friends, he did not walk down the aisle with Marc and Marjorie, per Jewish custom. Her old friend Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state, is headlining the night. She met her half-brother, who recognized a scar on her leg from a long-forgotten motorcycle ride. I dont know if theres a lot of giveback.. I pressed on. You would feel used.. 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. 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. Between them, they had 11 children. One morning, Holly called Margolies out of the blue. In exchange for her vote on the budget bill, President Clinton agreed to attend a conference on entitlement reform in her district. My husband gets a raise and we have to give it back in health care costs. But sometimes its just literally true. "People willsay, 'Time will heal.' / CBS Philadelphia. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. Above, Hillary, Chelsea and Marc in November. 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. "See what I mean?" Margolies told TODAY. After planning for months and talking about it for months and anticipating it for months, I am finally in Israel. The seat had been held by a Republican since 1916, but she won as a Democrat. She went to Brown, shes married; she has three kids. It never does. 'As I was getting ready to leave Korea, they said, 'we've picked a little girl for you.' 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. Elected in 1992dubbed the Year of the Woman, after the female representation of Congress doubledshe was a staunch feminist who had recently given up a career as an Emmy-Award winning television journalist. "Middle-income people are getting screwed royally," Keane said. Sometimes it does but sometimes it really doesnt.". She became pals with Katie Couric and Gloria Steinem. Herbert and Mildred's daughter.". Three years later, Margolies drew on that experience to found Womens Campaign International, a globe-trotting nonprofit she still leads today. Another friend, Nancy Chasen, says that they were just best best best friends.) However close Chelsea and Marc were, Ed Mezvinsky tried to use their bond to his advantage. Her career as an activist was just getting started, though. I'm pretty independent, I guess. By the time Mezvinsky went to prisonin 2003, the conventional wisdom in Philadelphia political circles was that Marjories political career was over. How to register: Go to www.jccotp.org/ programs/lectures-learningor call the JCC at (201) 569-7900. 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But at some level, she has always done it this way. Margolies was sitting in the audience and exchanged hellos with Clinton at the event. Two years after she adopted Holly, in 1975, Margolies married former U.S. Rep. Edward Mezvinsky. When she filed for bankruptcy, a judge rejected her assertion of ignorance in a scathing decision that, depending on how you read it, either calls her feminism into question or suggests she knows more than shes letting on. "I can't believe you're so relaxed," voter Sandy Levitt marveled to Mezvinsky last weekend at a crafts fair where she was trolling for votes. "Eat, eat, eat!". In this vein, the harshest indictment of Marjorie I hear comes from Mezvinskys former doctor Brad Fenton. They all learned from each other. I dont gamble, but I do take chances, she said. Ms. Margolies got married thats where the Mezvinsky came from, as well as many more children. She also has written three books, taken a number of refugee families into her home and arranged surgeries and adoptions for distressed children from abroad. She tried to rest after a life spent on the go. "I'm trying to raise two children, and {pay for} school and clothes. NARBERTH, PA. -- Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky has a few things on her mind. Ms. Margolies was born in Philadelphia in 1942; she and her family moved to suburban Baltimore for her fathers job when she was 8. ), In 1997, several years after their first Renaissance Weekend together, Chelsea Clinton decided to attend Stanford University, where Marc was already enrolled. ("I hate fund-raising calls," she silently mouths to a visitor as an aide hands her a telephone.). Whatever decisions that were made in the marriage, their life, political life, social lifeMarjorie was the head guy, she says. View Leah Margulies' profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. First Lady Hillary Clinton chaired the American delegation, and Marjorie Margolies was named. The theme of this years fundraiser was the next generation of female leaders. 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. They knew that not only did I want to do the story, but I wanted to adopt. A couple hours before the vote, she had appeared live on Philadelphia television to explain her opposition to the bill. The nurse on the other end gasped when Margolies introduced herself. 'I've gotten so much more out of this than the children have. 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. Her career ended for a second time in 2000. I think its old news. 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And shes so successful. 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. 'Sometimes I feel it's the most selfish thing I've ever done in my entire life,' she says softly. 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. She was a pickpocket.". ), This story is an absolute lie, she said, but she tells it with glee. She was a street child. Alas, Holly passed away mid-May 2016 following a three-year battle with cervical cancer. They had two sons, Jude and Trent. Marc was not in favor of Marjorie running, she tells me. "I introduced myself to her and I realized she was editing galleys of a book while she was on the stakeout," King said. 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