She nurtured generations of Democratic politicians — among them a young Joe Biden — and conducted statecraft at the dinner table.
At her Washington home in 2002, Esther Coopersmith, left, presents a gift to Bernadette O'Huiginn, wife of the Irish ambassador to the United States. Esther Coopersmith, who nurtured generations of Democratic politicians — among them a young Joe Biden — and conducted diplomacy at the dinner table as one of Washington’s longest-reigning social doyennes, died March 26 at her home in the District. She was 94.Mrs.
In 1979 and 1980, during the administration of President Jimmy Carter, Mrs. Coopersmith served as a public member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations. His successor, Ronald Reagan, sent her as a representative to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women and to a 1985 conference in Nairobi marking the U.N. Decade for Women. Under President Bill Clinton, she served as a U.S. observer at UNESCO and later, in 2009, was named a UNESCO goodwill ambassador.But Mrs.
Anatoly F. Dobrynin, the longtime Soviet ambassador, had lived in the United States for 24 years before he experienced a Thanksgiving meal — for the first time — at her table, Mrs. Coopersmith said.At her brunches, luncheons and soirees, which numbered in the dozens annually, she delighted in making seating arrangements that held the promise of advancing, if only infinitesimally, the cause of world peace., signatories of the Camp David Accords brokered by Carter. Biden credited Mrs.
She did not receive a college degree, her son said, explaining that “the need to support her family caused her to leave the University of Denver, and the allure of politics preempted her finishing up at Wisconsin.”
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