Word: panetta
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...Leon Panetta announced his long-promised and much anticipated shake-up of the Clinton White House staff. The result: some clearer lines of authority but no major changes. Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers, whose ouster had been widely rumored, even got a promotion and greater access to the President -- reportedly after circumventing Panetta and making a last-minute plea directly to Clinton...
...Panetta Vows Quick Review at White House...
...Panetta himself, on Face the Nation, 7/10/94...
...ordering a Haiti invasion -- because there seemed to be no other way to force that nation's brutal military dictators into yielding power. Only minutes after the cameras stopped rolling in the Oval Office, the President sat down with Vice President Al Gore, White House chief of staff Leon Panetta and National Security Adviser Anthony Lake. They shared a secret that only three or four other people in the entire government were aware of: there might, after all, be one more chance to resolve the crisis diplomatically...
...brewing brouhaha over White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers' rumored reassignment -- as well as the idea of a White House staff overhaul -- has apparently come to nothing. Chief of staff Leon Panetta announced today that Myers would keep her job, plus receive a promotion to assistant to the President. But Myers also reportedly told friends she's splitting from the White House before the year is out. Other changes in the President's office sound like small potatoes compared with Panetta's previous promise of a major perestroika: communications director Mark Gearan, for example, is now Panetta's coordinator...