Note at the Mary Kokoris Podesta's Obituary: Mary Podesta (Kokoris) - John and Tony Podesta's mother: "She had two sons, but she adopted another 25 people during the time she came to Washington, said her older son, Tony Podesta, a Washington public affairs strategist. She had two lives. She was a wife and mother in Chicago, but then she came to Washington and became friends with presidents and senators who always enjoyed her wit and willingness to say anything to anybody."