Word: panetta
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...lifelong friend, genial gas company executive Thomas F. McLarty III, a choice that bewildered many Clinton associates who doubted McLarty had the tenacity for the job. Two years into his first term, McLarty was forced out, becoming instead a "counselor" to the President; Clinton replaced him with Rep. Leon Panetta of California...
...first White House press secretary in Bill Clinton's administration, was also the first woman to hold that post. She has just published Why Women Should Rule the World - part political memoir, part reported rhetoric, part feminist manifesto. Myers spoke with TIME's Lisa Takeuchi Cullen about confronting Leon Panetta on her pay, why she won't endorse Hillary Clinton, and whether or not women rule her own household...
...TIME:You were appointed the country's first female White House press secretary. Yet you were stiffed when it came to proper pay, authority and even the press secretary's rightful office. When you went to argue for a raise, [then chief of staff] Leon Panetta told you you didn't deserve what a male colleague of lower rank made because you weren't a man supporting a family. Would that have happened if a woman was your boss...
...Myers:That's a good question. It would depend on the woman. Not every woman is perfect; we all hear the horror stories of female bosses. But at that moment in 1994, I just thought no one would say these things out loud. Yet [Panetta...
...TIME:Didn't experience, circumstance and age factor in? If you were, say, the Dee Dee Myers of 2007, would Panetta have said the same thing...