{"id":3825,"date":"2009-03-23T02:03:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T02:03:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:16:16","slug":"meghan-mccain-interviews-supriya-jindal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=3825","title":{"rendered":"Meghan McCain interviews Supriya Jindal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Meghan McCain<\/strong> interviews <strong>Supriya Jindal<\/strong>, wife of <strong>Governor Bobby Jindal<\/strong>, the <strong>first Indian-American<\/strong> to be elected as a Governor of a US state. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Supriya,<\/strong> who is 37, is the youngest first lady. She was born in India\u2014her mother was a stay-at-home mom, her father an engineer\u2014and moved to Baton Rouge when she was four years old. She worked in a chemical plant in Louisiana while earning her MBA from Tulane. She married Bobby in 1997. There is talk that <strong>Governor Jindal<\/strong> could make a run for the Presidency in 2012, making him, if the wins, the first Asian American President.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the rest of the interview here<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2009-03-22\/the-first-lady-of-2012\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Beast<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan McCain interviews Supriya Jindal, wife of Governor Bobby Jindal, the first Indian-American to be elected as a Governor 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