Word: clintone
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...duties on air, Gupta holds a faculty position in neurosurgery at Emory University, where he continues to perform surgery a few times a week. Gupta's limited health-policy experience includes a stint as a White House fellow in 1997, where he worked with then First Lady Hillary Clinton on health-care reform. In 2001, months before the Sept. 11 attacks, Gupta joined CNN and has since provided on-the-spot medical analysis on news events ranging from the anthrax attacks to Vice President Cheney's heart problems and the aftermath of the tsunami in Sri Lanka...
...Surgeon General, Gupta would oversee the 6,000-member commissioned corps of the U.S. Public Health Service. Traditionally, the office, which was established in 1871, has served as a soapbox for promoting healthy living goals: C. Everett Koop launched an antismoking campaign in the 1980s; Joycelyn Elders, under President Clinton, pushed for stronger sex education in schools (she was later forced to resign, following the program's controversy); and Richard Carmona focused on controlling drug abuse under President George W. Bush. With Gupta, that soapbox has the potential to become a podium for convincing the American public as well...
...Served as Bill Clinton's director of the Office of Management and Budget and was promoted to chief of staff in 1994. (Mack McLarty, the previous chief of staff and a Clinton childhood friend, was thought to be ineffective at keeping the President disciplined.) In his new role, Panetta brought more structure to the office of the President, curtailing long, meandering meetings Clinton tended to have and limiting access to the President so he could focus on key issues and not get distracted...
...When I was at [the White House Office of Management and Budget], it was hard to find time to go to the bathroom. Now I can't eat. Maybe it's all working out." - on his appointment to serve as Clinton's Chief of Staff, New Yorker, July...
...perfect government servant." - Then New York Rep. Charles Schumer, on Panetta's appointment to be Clinton's budget director, USA Today...