HANDSOME AND BRIGHT- LOVE THESE TWO. THYE BRING SUCH A LEVEL OF REAL INTELLECT AND REASONING TO ALL ISSUES. WOW WE NEED THEM-“Ted is on my health care plan,” said Mrs. Cruz, who has worked in Goldman’s investment management division for eight years. Catherine Frazier, a spokeswoman for the senator, confirmed the coverage, which Goldman said was worth at least $20,000 a year. “The senator is on his wife’s plan, which comes at no cost to the taxpayer and reflects a personal decision about what works best for their family,” she said. Mrs. Cruz, both personally and professionally, is a complex study in contrasts to her husband. She describes herself as instinctively collaborative, and her husband as a man of big, fearless ideas — a seemingly polite way of saying that, yes, Mr. Cruz breaks a few pieces of china every now and then. “Ted is very much a visionary,” she said. “He is very strategic, and he’s very practical, and he does what needs to be done, not what everybody wants him to do.” Of herself, she said: “I want to make sure that everybody is comfortable. I want to make sure that everybody is talking to each other.” Those who know Mrs. Cruz say that she is less ideological than her husband. During the Bush administration, where she worked first in the United States trade representative’s office and later in the Treasury Department and on the National Security Council, she was known as more of an analytical thinker than a partisan zealot. “Nothing in her background remotely approached Ted’s Scalia-like conservatism,” said P. Edward Haley, a professor of international strategic studies at Claremont McKenna College and one of Mrs. Cruz’s mentors, referring to Justice Antonin Scalia. “They’re alike in intensity — and they’re both extremely bright — and in conservative principles and ambition, but absent Ted, I don’t think Heidi would be moving in that particular branch of the Republican Party.” Mrs. Cruz first met her husband in Austin, Tex., in 2000. He had his own elite academic credentials — Princeton and Harvard Law School — and both were young policy aides (she on the economic side, he on the domestic side) on George W. Bush’s presidential campaign. Their first date was at a bar called the Bitter End, and it lasted for hours as her young suitor, Mrs. Cruz recalled with a laugh, “asked me a lot of questions about my background, my goals in life, my 10-year plan, my 20-year plan. In Mr. Cruz’s telling, they met on Jan. 3 and began dating on Jan. 5. “I’m embarrassed it took me two days to ask her out to dinner,” he said. They married the following May. Mrs. Cruz was born in San Luis Obispo, Calif., to parents who were Seventh-day Adventist missionaries. She and her brother spent brief parts of their childhood in places like Nigeria and Kenya. But her own mission, she said, involved public service. She fell in love with politics on a family trip to Washington during the Reagan administration. Julie Sweet, the general counsel at the consulting firm Accenture, who is a close friend of the Cruzes, said that “the way she always phrased it was people are called in different ways to serve.” By the time she arrived at Claremont McKenna College in California, friends and professors knew her as a whip-smart economics and international relations double-major — she later graduated Phi Beta Kappa — and a driven and ambitious young woman who was already planning a professional career. In Mr. Cruz, friends and colleagues say, she met not just her match, but also her intellectual equal. nytimes/2013/10/24/us/politics/a-wife-committed-to-cruzs-ideals-but-a-study-in-contrasts-to-him.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1
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