But to become a political spouse, even in 2018, is to learn that your world will be chosen for you. Ambitious young women imagine choosing their own worlds. The point, though, is the song, because she still thinks about it, often. The girls-Caroline, 10 Catherine, 7-love to watch the video. We were almost two hours into our conversation before she brought up her wedding. Yes, we are.” She leaned to grab a bottle off the dining-room table, and the crystal chandelier reflected her hair and turned gold. As we sat down to eat, she said what I imagine all women who wear these things must say, her voice warm and conspiratorial: “We’re gonna have some champagne. That Wednesday afternoon, she greeted me somewhat breathlessly-“This client call went much longer than I thought it would!”-wearing a light-blue silk dress, a slightly darker blue scarf, and a knotted strand of pearls (not the ones from Ted). If some people look like their dogs, Heidi Cruz looks like her house: expensive, serene, draped in pretty fabrics. The Cruzes live in precisely the house you’d envision-white brick with black shutters and a door framed by gas lanterns-in the neighborhood you’d expect, leafy and palatial, in the center of Houston. I met her on an August afternoon at her home, where she’d invited me for lunch. “Every time I talk to her I think, You should be running for office, not your husband.” “Everyone loves Heidi,” a prominent Houston Democrat told me. While Ted struggled to find character witnesses within his own party-his colleague Lindsey Graham once joked about someone murdering him on the Senate floor-Heidi collected fans wherever she went. Suddenly, the curtain was pulled back on the woman who professed to love one of the most polarizing figures in American politics. In 2015, she took unpaid leave from her job as the managing director of Goldman Sachs in Houston to campaign for her husband. senator, and, most recently, candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. Since then, as Ted’s wife, the mother of their two daughters, and the family breadwinner, Heidi has helped see him through roles as Texas solicitor general, U.S. She relented, and it became a theme of sorts.
She didn’t understand: They had a band, she told him-a violinist, no less! Why on earth would they play a CD? “Because no one can do Aladdin,” he said. Which is how Heidi found herself planning a May wedding to a man who, for all his pretension, insisted they play “A Whole New World,” the popular Disney song, at the end of the ceremony. And this was special: She’d mentioned once that she liked to go to Bergdorf’s, to look at the china and other delicate things behind glass, and he’d listened. Probably fake, she still thinks, but they were from Bergdorf Goodman. Later that summer, Ted gave her a strand of pearls. And he did call her, every day that spring, at about 3 or 4 a.m. Call me every day when your day is done, she instructed him. Then he took her to the airport, where she’d get on a plane back to Boston. They filled those three weeks with movies and dinners and drives.
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