She feels out of touch with her mother (they haven't talked since last night). Her. But she has at least one not insignificant thing going for hera very personal tie to a very powerful family. "And that," Margolies said, through tears, "was Holly.". She endured grueling chemotherapy sessions. 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. But even as a family of ten, Margolies had only one answer when asked to take in a family of refugees: "Let's do it.". I was at his bris!, OPTICS: Chelsea's Other Half (click to view gallery). In 1992, she ran for Congress, and won, serving for two years as a congresswoman from Pennsylvania. We have a huge house, she confirmed. 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 asks a lot. I realized the challenges.". She then adopted a half-American, half-Vietnamese child, Holly, now 18. 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. She was a street child. Holly was 5 at the time. California residents do not sell my data request. A former friend of Margoliess poses the question in a different way. What appeared as a full plate for the intrepid reporter and single mom of two young girls was just the beginning of Margolies' story. ), In 1997, several years after their first Renaissance Weekend together, Chelsea Clinton decided to attend Stanford University, where Marc was already enrolled. Margolies said her late daughter "was amazing" and left an incredible legacy, including two children. I knew some kids were sent back. 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"I was known as the real Dairy Queen," she said of her days at WRC, where she pumped breast milk between assignments, froze it and carted it home by car every week. Even for a campaign fundraiser taking place a half-year ahead of a primary, there is surprisingly little talk of the election itself. Thirty-nine years after she left, Holly went to Vietnam in 2012, with Margolies. I dont know that they were having sleepovers, you know what Im saying? says Chasen. She was 6years old. Margoliess decision to run undoubtedly puts the Clintons, eyeing a race of their own, in a tough spot, writes van Zuylen-Wood. If that last fact isnt immediately obvious to everyone attending the fundraiser, it will quickly become so. Her career as an activist was just getting started, though. 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. 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. 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. And Ed adored her. She was a terror, but fabulous. I've juggled pretty well.". That night of the vote, Clinton called me. That parts true. (Marc was her first biological child; his brother Andrew, now an artist, was born a few years later.) Timeless Lessons From the Front Lines of Motherhood.". I hope she wins.". But Mr. Chelsea himself, Goldberg says, views it as a serious political liability. Three years later, Margolies drew on that experience to found Womens Campaign International, a globe-trotting nonprofit she still leads today. Marjorie Margolies knew she wanted to be a mom, but wasn't sure if she would get married, so she adopted a pretty revolutionary idea in the 1970s. 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. She gave speeches at memorials that made everyone cry and laugh in the same breath. ", "I had done all these stories on hard-to-place kids, and I thought, 'Hmm, thats something that I could do.' 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). Iactually have no idea how many parts this is going to end up being, so I apologize in advance. She gave toasts that prompted acquaintances to ask whether she was a stand-up comedian. Four years later, she adopted Holly, then 6, from Vietnam. Lee Heh, CSCP Supply Chain and Logistics Professional Orange County, California, United States 1K followers 500+ connections Join to view profile Chipotle Mexican Grill University of. How is it possible that I forgot to wish my house a happy birthday? "I was shocked to anger," she said. You get the check, but its not the right amount. 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 owna large family including her biological, adopted, step- and surrogate children. 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. The whole family gathers at Marc Mezvinskys wedding to Chelsea Clinton. Her mother, Mildred Margolies, 81, of Philadelphia, remembers always worrying that her daughter was doing too much. 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. "I didnt know if and when I would marry. Which makes tapping into Clintonworld for campaign help all the more intuitive for her. The honoree? Her greatest feat of Rolodex-padding, though, might have been losing her re-election in 1994. "She had this great energy. Do they risk their political capital by publicly supporting a flawed congressional candidate in the sensitive run-up to Hillarys likely presidential run, or do they turn their backs on a family memberand one to whom the former president owes a considerable political debt at that? She appeared three times at the Summer Olympics (1972, 1976, 1980) and three times at the Commonwealth Games (1974, 1978, 1982). 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. Danish did not disappoint. Surrounded by family members she was meeting for the first time, Holly, a bit nervous, turned to humor. Through it all, Margolies never gave up her professional pursuits. That's not all the charges who live in their 35-room home on the Philadelphia Mainline. 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. 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. ", Andrew, also interviewed while campaigning, said he did not expect to be lonely for his mother if she has to spend most of the week in Washington: "There's always someone there {at the house}. My husband gets a raise and we have to give it back in health care costs. 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. Babka in Israel, part 4 relax, its the last part! Holly. When Margolies was elected to the House in 1992, she was in her early 50s, and her last name was Margolies-Mezvinsky. Her highest honours came with the women's 4100 m relay team, with which was a . Holly arrived sickly. 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. She was brave. "She smoked. Then, lowering her voice and raising her eyebrows, she adds, Its a good question, darling. She pauses and tries to get serious. That election night, Id only written a concession speech. Public File for KYW-TV / CBS Philadelphia. But really it shows the similarity of human connection around the world. Holly, a half-Vietnamese, half-American child, was a street child. But when unmarried Marjorie Margolies picked up six-year-old Lee Heh 15 years ago in Korea, it simply wasn't done. / CBS Philadelphia. It turned out a solid portion of the familys moneythey owned a 15-room mansion in Narberth, Pa.belonged to other people. 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. She was also a fiscal hawk representing Philadelphias moneyed suburbs; prior to her election, her district had gone Republican every year since 1916. She took four ballet classes a week, played team sports, was head cheerleader and an honors student, and finished junior high school in two years. So, a family of five refugees from Vietnam moved in with the family. She arrived stubborn, a street kid from Saigon on the sidewalks of the Upper East Side, where Margolies rented an apartment for a time. Mr. Mezvinsky has four daughters from his previous marriage,. Toni Goldberg defends Margolies as a career woman who was too busy to pay heed to her husbands schemes, but she says the judges indictment made sense to many at the time. MOUNTAIN AVE. MONTCLAIR, NJ 2000-04-27 Deed Recorded: Book: 05698 Page: 00363. In fact, there probably are few families like Mezvinsky's. In June 2012, Margolies rented a house in Ventnor, at the Jersey Shore, for her 70th birthday. Three weeks later, she declared bankruptcy too and dropped out of the race; creditors were asking the two of them for more than $7 million. The other day, Facebook reminded me that this new generation of humans will never know the joys of having two keys for your car. I had gone to visit Son #3 on an At Academy for Jewish Religion, sacred arts include circus, Accused chef faces charges on several fronts, As abuse cases proceed against former Humble Toast owner, his career boasts are undercut, Reform synagogues join in Shabbaton to consider big questions and to celebrate, Federation launches Israel Now trip for eighth graders, Raising the militarys Holocaust awareness, JFNNJs Yom HaShoah commemoration to hear director of West Point center, Rabbi Zeilicovich comes out of retirement in Israel to lead a congregation in paradise. It all began when Marjorie Margolies got a reporting assignment in Korea. But at some level, she has always done it this way. Lee Heh arrived from Korea in 1970 and was joined four years later by Holly from Vietnam. "Now this is a beautiful baby," she cooed and segued on to the next voter. "So sweet.". (All photos courtesy Marjorie Margolies). In this vein, the harshest indictment of Marjorie I hear comes from Mezvinskys former doctor Brad Fenton. 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. Marc was not in favor of Marjorie running, she tells me. Ms. Margolies shakes hands with President Bill Clinton. I realized the challenges. 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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. 'When people ask, 'which ones are your real children?' Her dish always has to be full. My most arrested child.. Mezvinsky never asked Fenton to invest, and Fenton does not suspect Margolies was involved in his schemes. I finally found a group in Oregon that didn't say yes, but they didn't say no. She won five Emmys. Last weekend in the town of Ambler, she was confronted by a woman who declared herself to be against abortion rights. I gave birth to two boys. It doesnt work all the time, though, and I was sure that I would lose. Holly. Its so nice to see someone who is willing to stand up for what she believes in.. Twenty-five years. (The two divorced in 2007; Ed was released from prison a year later.) She won by a mile. 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. Should a Holocaust documentary have a happy ending? Margolies and Mezvinsky also have two biological children, Mark, 7, and Andrew, 3. Her son, Mark, is married to their daughter, Chelsea. "She would see something she wanted in a restaurant window, and lie down in front of the door until we went in," Margolies said. | Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo. Getting her was tough going through the adoption agencies, which can even make it nearly impossible for married couples. Ms. Margolies also writes about grief, and coping with it, in her new book. Especially in our out-of-control entitlements programs. Then the president called. Margolies led the U.S. delegation; then [] She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and did graduate work at Columbia. "If I'm elected, it'll be because I'm different and people want me to be different for them," said Mezvinsky. ", Among other things, she used her WRC assignments to hunt dates for friends. "When she wanted something, she would get it - but then she would share.". 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. 'I've gotten so much more out of this than the children have. Whats it like being the son ofa major league baseball player? Why is the Chinese dragon laying eggs in different baskets? Rumors of romance followed. I'm not getting anywhere." "She was always doing three things at once. Lee Heh could get only a student visa, and she was the youngest student ever to get one. Eventually, the adoption went through. First single US woman to adopt internationally shares her journey. Holly grew up, went to the University of Pennsylvania, got married, had two children, and had a happy life, but she died of cancer four years ago. But a determined Margolies, then a reporter with WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, carved out her own path to success. 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? The youngest children flocked to Holly. Lee Heh arrived from Korea in 1970 and was joined four years later by Holly from Vietnam. 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. 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. We just lost a lot of stuff.' Theres no question that the scandal and its messy fallout were damaging to Margolies as well. She returned home with the beginning of her own story a 7-year-old daughter named Lee Heh. 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 was booted in 1994, after a single term. IE 11 is not supported. 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. They knew that not only did I want to do the story, but I wanted to adopt. 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. Its a very Jewish question. 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. She is a slip of a woman with a short wedge of black hair -- a contrast to the waist-length tresses that were her trademark on television in the 1970s -- who alternates between Albert Nipon suits and dungarees on the campaign trail. Above, Hillary, Chelsea and Marc in November. And she was just impossible. Here is another column on the joys of getting older. View Leah Margulies' profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Look up the complete property record for 221 NO. 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. The reason thats funny is that one of her sons, Marc Mezvinsky, is married to Bill and Hillary Clintons only child, Chelsea Clinton. Margolies became the first unmarried U.S. citizen to adopt a foreign child. "Can you get together a wedding in a couple of weeks?" There was anger there, still, and fear. Currently, five of the children are in college, one attends a conservatory in France, and four others are in private schools. In 1976, she wrote a book on her two daughters, 'They Came To Stay'. EIN: 06-1320335; Classification () Private Grantmaking Foundations (Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Grantmaking Foundations) ; Nonprofit Tax Code Designation: 501(c)(3) Defined as: Organizations for any of the following purposes: religious, educational, charitable, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering national or international amateur sports competition (as long as it doesn . Currently, Lee is single. Apparently, it is all how you look at 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. I say, without being flip, 'I forget,' because they are all ours. She was a pickpocket.". The night after the fundraiser I attended with Margolies, Hillary Clinton arrived in Philadelphia to give a speech to the Pennsylvania Conference for Women. Please enter valid email address to continue. Holly Thi Werth (Margolies) passed away on May 3, 2016, in her home in Boise with her family at her bedside. 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. Local author finds out; along the way he learnshow to network, write, and publish a book, Barnert Temple rededicates Centerville Cemetery, Synagogue in Franklin Lakes restores its old burial ground in Clifton, Real estate magnate Joseph Barry sponsors concert celebrating Israel at 75, Josh Gottheimer talks about his trip to Israel with Hakeem Jeffries. Alas, Holly passed away mid-May 2016 following a three-year battle with cervical cancer. In a last-ditch attempt at an insanity defense, he sued Fenton for prescribing him an anti-malaria drug that he said exacerbated his ostensible bipolar disorder, resulting in bouts of manic-depressive behavior, which in turn caused him to rob people. In 1970, Margolies was a TV reporter when an assignment took her to Korea for. And that she would be. Two years after she adopted Holly, in 1975, Margolies married former U.S. Rep. Edward Mezvinsky. But the fundraisers VIP cachet is representative less of Margoliess political potency than of her connections. NBC-TV reporter Margolies surmounted both obstacles in 1970, after several years of effort. 'As I was getting ready to leave Korea, they said, 'we've picked a little girl for you.' Chelsea Clinton. He had four daughters from a previous marriage. JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, How much: $12 for JCC members; $15 for nonmembers.

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