Teresa Heinz Kerry, The Philanthropist, Tries Tough Love

The Wall Street Journal ^ | Friday, April 16, 2004 | SHAILAGH MURRAY

[TroutStalker]

PITTSBURGH -- A month after Teresa Heinz Kerry's first husband, John Heinz, the ketchup heir and U.S. senator, died in a plane crash in 1991, she took his place as head of the family philanthropies.

The first significant request she fielded was from the Pittsburgh Symphony, which had depended on the family's largesse ever since her husband's great-grandfather provided early funding for the orchestra a century earlier. The symphony was beset with financial and labor problems, and it was burning through cash. The board wanted a $30 million grant to launch its new capital drive.

[freekitty]

We don't need first lady who is against America. I believe Ms. Kerry is.

[Arpege92]

"If only our politicians were as stingy with our tax dollars imagine how much better off we would be."

I wouldn't use the word stingy, but I do agree with what you are saying.

[mtntop3]

Good work, LindaSOG. I read this sugary, ommissive, front-page WSJ story on Theresa this morning. The WSJ let slip its standards on this one. The article by Ben Johnson in FrontPageMagazine, which you have quoted and apparently forward to the WSL, goes a long way to setting the record straight on Theresa - and particularly her support of the Tides Foundation with its leftist/radical spin-offs. There may be, and should be, a number of complaints to the WSJ on this.

[Mrs Zip]

ping

[lainde]

Excellent letter!

[zip]

Excellent. thx

[zip]

Please use words to make a comment. Your jr.high picture was not helpful to the discussion here..

Lighten up. No one appointed you "Decision Policeman". Many, many of us thought it was appropriate AND HUMOROUS. I really wonder about your agenda. Why try to cause problems?