Teresa Heinz Kerry emerges from her Boston town house in a black workout leotard and dark glasses (though the morning is overcast), nibbling a handful of granola en route to her Pilates class. For a minute, she stops to chat with the young man who will be driving her husband, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, around that day. And, leaning up against the campaign van, she asks him to make sure the senator actually eats the healthful lunch their maid has prepared for him and packed in a Whole Foods bag. "So what are you going to do today, Mrs. Heinz?'' the driver says in response, perhaps aware that it won't be long before her husband is baying for preservatives, and on the lookout for the nearest 7-Eleven. "Oh, I'll probably cry all day''--pause, 2, 3--"because my--husband isn't around,'' she says wryly, a la Miss Scarlett declaring she will weep into her pillow every night Charles Hamilton is off fighting the Yankees. "No, I think I'll catch up with myself today,'' she says, pulling a handful of auburn curls up off her face, "which you never get to do in this business.''
But it's Teresa Heinz Kerry--wealthy "venture philanthropist,'' multilingual former U.N. interpreter and longtime stay-at-home mom, until her three sons were grown--who makes Hillary look downright retiring.
"And no one's about to'' ask her to change now, he promises. For the most part, rather than trying to rein in his freewheeling wife, Kerry seems to be trying to emulate her, speaking much more directly in this campaign, PG curse words and all, than in his pre-Teresa (tehr-AY-zuh) days.
Mrs. Heinz Kerry seems to enjoy dispensing tips on subjects ranging from which sunscreens contain carcinogens to the immunity-boosting antioxidants in green tea
Kerry's friend George Butler, the documentary filmmaker who was once a reporter for NEWSWEEK, says, laughing: "In January '68, I reported on a lunch Nixon gave and watched Pat Nixon gaze at him for three hours straight. I don't foresee Teresa Heinz --doing that under any circumstance, ever.''
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:0HK1H0__1Z8J:msnbc.msn.com/id/3761423/+john+kerry%27s+first+wife&hl=en&ie=UTF-8Who would have ever guessed that a former NEWSWEEK "reporter" was one of the protesters helping Kerry in the anit-war movement after Vietnam? /sarcasm
The protests were set for the week of April 20. Kerry spent some of his time at the Georgetown townhouse of his longtime friend George Butler, working the phones, trying to round up veterans.
Kerry's friend George Butler, the documentary filmmaker who was once a reporter for NEWSWEEK.