Nancy Pelosi

These days, everyone talks about 82-year-old Nancy Pelosi and her visit to Taiwan: According to the service Flightradar24, more than 2.92 million people from all over the planet followed the route of the speaker’s plane – the flight was the most watched in history. China, which considers Taiwan its territory, has repeatedly warned that it is ready to take drastic measures in the event of such a trip, and protested vigorously after the landing of the plane of the American speaker. The world press writes that relations between China and the USA are getting worse. Named the third person in the US power structure, we understand who Nancy Pelosi is.

Nancy Pelosi and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen

Interested in politics since childhood

Nancy was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and her father, Thomas D’Alessandro Jr., was mayor of that city for 12 years. In the late 60s, his brother Thomas D’Alessandro III took up the same post. After graduating from a women’s Catholic school, Nancy earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Trinity College and soon embarked on a political career.

A member of the US Democratic Party, Pelosi has fully supported Democrats from birth: She remembers when as a child a Republican campaigner tried to give her a toy elephant (the symbol of the Republican Party), but she didn’t buy it herself. toy.

He has five children and nine grandchildren.

In 2023, Nancy and her husband, businessman Paul Pelosi, will celebrate their sixtieth wedding anniversary. They met while in college. He has four daughters and a son. The youngest daughter, Alexander, is engaged in television journalism and shoots documentaries. Son Paul is a business analyst and broker. His daughter, Christine, a former lawyer and now a political strategist for the Democratic Party, is married to the son of director Philip Kaufman, who runs The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Marquis de Plaster. Little is known about the couple’s other daughter, Jacqueline, except that she owns an art studio and has three sons. Some information about the spouses eldest daughter Nancy Corrin: She once headed the sales department of the Fairmont hotel chain, now works as a marketer in Arizona, according to the press.

Nancy and Paul Pelosi with her family

tight mom

Nancy’s children said in an interview with Vanity Fair that “literally military discipline” always reigned in their home. In the morning they had to make their beds on time, clean the rooms and go down to breakfast. Before school, all children were given containers with exactly the same lunch, Nancy’s daughters stood in line so that they braided each hair. It was also the responsibility of every child to prepare the school uniform and shine their shoes.

Pelosi states that while raising children, she gained skills that were very useful to her in her political career. One of his friends says this about him:

However, the guys managed to break the rules: for example, only years later Nancy and her husband learned that their youngest daughter, Alexandra, sometimes ran away at night to play in an amateur grunge band.

one of the most powerful women in the USA

Nancy has served in Congress since the 1980s, and in the early 2000s she became the first woman to hold a caucus meeting of a minority Democratic faction in the House of Representatives. She soon led the she faction—the first time in history this position has been held by a woman. At the same time, the Democrats regained a majority in the lower house of parliament after twelve years in opposition.

Pelosi was later elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, thus becoming the first woman of Italian-American descent and the first person to hold the post (she has Italian roots).

Now Nancy occupies the third most important position in the US power structure, after President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. The speaker of the House of Representatives is exactly the person who would become the head of state if anything happened to the president and vice president of the United States (but such incidents have never happened in American history).

He tore up Trump’s speech from behind

Pelosi actively opposed Donald Trump and championed the idea of ​​impeachment. The speaker assured that the former US president is at the disposal of Vladimir Putin, due to some compromising evidence allegedly in the hands of Russia. Politicians made no secret of their hostility: Trump did not shake hands with Pelosi at a Congressional meeting, and she defiantly tore up the text of Trump’s speech after the president addressed Congress. The video went viral on social media, and the American press described it as the “biggest moment” of Pelosi’s political career.

Her husband is in trouble with the law

Just today, August 3, Paul Pelosi will appear in court in California on charges of drunk driving. Her 82-year-old husband, Nancy Pelosi, had an accident while driving his Porsche at the end of May this year. According to media reports, one person was injured as a result of the collision, and alcohol was found in Pelosi’s blood – 0.082 ppm.

Criticized for misuse of aviation

In 2009, Pelosi came under fire when the New York Post reported that she had requested a US Air Force G-5 plane for personal travel. The publication ran excerpts from Nancy’s assistant’s emails, which the speaker said would be “very disappointed” if she wasn’t given the requested board. The public was unhappy that Pelosi was spending public funds for personal purposes.

she likes to dance

Nancy Pelosi’s daughter, Christine, says in an interview that one of her childhood memories was her mother dancing in the kitchen to Cher’s songs:

Nancy Pelosi and John F. Kennedy: “I’m 17 years old and then still just Senator John F. Kennedy. My friend who took our photos told me at the time: “Save this photo – one day he may be President. United States.”

loves chocolate

They say that Pelosi’s office should always have chocolate of a certain brand – the Ghirardelli confectionery factory located in San Francisco. He also can’t live without chocolate ice cream.

Passionate about puzzles

As far as the press knows, Nancy is a huge fan of crossword puzzles – she especially likes the ones published in the New York Times: they are considered particularly difficult.