Teresa Heinz and her father attended the first open meeting of frelimo (Frente da Libertação de Moçambique), which had been waging a guerrilla war of liberation for more than ten years, and they joined the vast throng of celebrants marching through the “cement town.” (The expression, which refers to the European enclaves in Mozambique’s urban centers, alludes to their solidity rather than to their ugliness. But I don’t dwell there, I dwell in a better house, a house of hope.” ♦. He became a Senator in 1977. According to a 2004 article in the New Yorker, her role included analyzing colonial financial information and “tracking the progress of decolonization.”. “I think marriage is difficult,” she reflected.
Her husband was commuting from long hours at the family company to their farmhouse on ninety acres in the fashionable suburb of Fox Chapel, and she was homesick and lonely.
There was laughter and applause. Andre—a polyglot like his mother—is a consultant to businesses interested in sustainable development. At an alternative Buddhist school that he co-founded, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, he teaches troubled adolescents and reproduces medieval tools and armor on a blacksmith’s forge. David Garth and others, including Arlen Specter, the senior senator from Pennsylvania and, like Heinz, a Republican who was willing, on occasion, to cross the aisle, urged her to run for her husband’s seat, which is now filled by Rick Santorum—an outspokenly conservative politician whom Heinz Kerry once called “a Forrest Gump with attitude.” Heinz Kerry was a registered Republican of the Rockefeller school until 2002, and she hasn’t altered her views in any essential way. On weekends and holidays, the family stayed at a cottage overlooking the Uembje lagoon, in Bilene, a hundred miles north of the capital. He was speaking at a rally on the Mall, and she had come with her first husband, who was also scheduled to address the crowd. Alexandra and Christopher Heinz (the stepson of Secretary of State John Kerry) have sold their Tribeca pad at 250 West St. for $11.85 million. Mother of his children. And in 2004, she garnered a lot of attention on the campaign trail for being unafraid to speak her mind. She was very independent. Her staff tries to keep her to a tight schedule, but she says that she’s “too old to be bossed around.” As a speaker, she often gives more of herself than she is asked for, lingering in reception lines and becoming absorbed in an anecdote or the answer to a question. When the news from Lisbon reached Lourenço Marques, the capital of Mozambique, stunned and ecstatic people took to the streets. When she urges Americans to exercise their right to vote, she likes to observe that her father was seventy-one when he cast his ballot in a free election for the first time. Close friends attribute her lapses of discretion to “naïveté.” Heinz Kerry says that they are a form of resistance to enforced conformity.
Andre—a polyglot like his mother—is a consultant to businesses interested in sustainable development. She thought the matter over on a long hike, and decided that “I shouldn’t stop him. The ketchup prince Andre Heinz is getting married to his icelandic love Maria Mareinsdotter this afternoon. Kerry announced at a meeting in DC that Andre Heinz, who lives in Sweden is getting married The meeting was a working lunch with five Nordic leaders (Norway, Sweden, … But John’s work with the family company was limited; he served in a marketing role in the late 1960s before turning to politics. “There were not that many Africans going to high school yet, or who would go to a movie, or who would do some of the things that we did, but my little school did have some mulatto girls.”, When she was fourteen, Teresa was sent to a Catholic boarding school in Durban, where she was one of three foreigners and barely understood a word.
Finito. Though the stamp on her Portuguese identity card categorized her, she tells voters, as “a second-class citizen,” her parentage entitled her to a first-class life. Baloney.” She says that a friend gave her some useful advice: “You have to treat stepchildren like pets. He began working with inner-city children while he was at Boston College, and became a Buddhist.
By the time Kerry met Teresa Heinz again—in Brazil in 1992—she had been widowed. A Heinz family member describes Teresa as “straitlaced” and uses the word “romanticism” to characterize her feelings for the Church: “When she was a young woman, her ideas were mystical and half-baked, but they’ve gotten much clearer.” From the perspective of an orthodox Catholic like her mother, however, Heinz Kerry’s position on reproductive rights qualifies as sinful.
She used part of that money to set up trust funds for her children. A Republican, John Heinz became a congressman in 1971. Teresa’s father compiled a hand-written dictionary of Ronga, a local language, that she inherited and keeps by her bedside. His coloring is Iberian, and an excellent tailor and beautiful manners that are reserved without being stiff contribute to his patrician air. “So we spent our time figuring out how to watch TV and eat junk food,” Andre said. After John Heinz’s death in 1991, Teresa Heinz took on a more prominent role in the Heinz family business, specifically on the charity side.
The relentless pace and rudeness of New York overwhelmed her. She is currently undergoing treatment for breast cancer. You know, Americans are smart, but they only know what they see and hear. was meeting, and I read that the Zimbabweans had walked out, because they could no longer afford to sell their corn and compete with the American farmers subsidized by the big Ags. She has always been—I hate the word—genuine. Heinz Kerry’s father moved back to Portugal with his wife after the Socialist regime of Samora Machel came to power in Mozambique, in 1975, and the country became independent.
John Heinz IV, 37, a teacher with a wife and child, avoids the spotlight. One summer, while on break from graduate school, he visited Geneva. “My life was idyllic,” Heinz Kerry says, “but more modern than Isak Dinesen’s.”. “What does the Republican Party need?” Heinz Kerry asked in a CBS television interview.
He held that seat until his sudden death in 1991, in a plane crash. She doesn’t watch what she says, but I’ve been involved with politics at what I consider a fairly high level for most of my life, and I’ve never seen anybody worth a damn who didn’t have her attitude.”.
You don’t make an idle remark to her and think it will be lost. Her acid-green suit was the color of an immense tanker, the Chemical Pioneer, slowly steaming up the river behind the stage. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R) listens to his wife Teresa Heinz (L) during his ceremonial swearing in at the State Department February 6, 2013 in Washington, DC. Christopher, the baby, was a year old, and his brothers, Andre and John, were four and seven. So I talked about it, and they got very excited to learn that what was an inequity to them was an inequity to poor people elsewhere. I should help him. “For instance, during the Iowa primaries, I was talking with small farmers and environmentalists about pesticides, aquifers, the big Ag subsidies, and what they are doing.
Another interesting tidbit: she chose to remain a Republican after getting married to Kerry, who is a Democrat.
The adviser involved in Kerry’s early strategy meetings told me that he is surprised by her reluctance “to trim the sails” of what he and others describe as a “self-referential” presentation that has often dwelled, at inopportune moments, on her memories of Heinz and on his legacy.
After graduating in 1963, her next move was the United States.
Heinz Company heir and future U.S. senator John Heinz. Adams’s mother was English, but her father was an American living in London, who became the United States consul there after the Revolution.) Heinz’s awards include the Aldo Leopold Award and the Albert Schweitzer Gold Medal for Humanitarianism. Heinz and Kerry met for the first time in 1990 at an Earth Day rally.
It’s not her fault that she has all that money. “No war is worth fighting if the people in our country aren’t defended by good schools, jobs, and health care,” she told the audience.
They have focussed less on John Kerry’s legislative achievements, human qualities, or political agenda than on her own eventful biography and the work of the Heinz Endowments, a charitable enterprise seeded by the family fortune of her first husband, H. John Heinz III, a Republican senator from Pennsylvania. She explained that it would take three weeks to get her vocabulary up to speed for a serious policy discussion, but that she would be happy to oblige the reporters with a little “chitchat.”, Despite her linguistic prowess and her worldliness, Heinz Kerry has, at times, a deaf ear for the nuances of slang, code, condescension, and vulgarity in English—for the emotion of the language.