“Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.”
— Dee Dee Myers
Author: Dee Dee Myers
Category: power
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“My job is to be a spokesman – the spokesman, I suppose – for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.”
— Dee Dee Myers
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Category: travel
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“Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.”
— Dee Dee Myers
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Category: history
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“Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me – just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.”
— Dee Dee Myers
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Category: humor
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“As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education – and less on alcohol and cigarettes.”
— Dee Dee Myers
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Category: education
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“Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.”
— Dee Dee Myers
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“As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education – and less on alcohol and cigarettes.”
— Dee Dee Myers
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“Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.”
— Dee Dee Myers
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“After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.”
— Dee Dee Myers
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Category: politics
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“Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there – there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.”
— Dee Dee Myers
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Category: change
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“This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.”
— Dee Dee Myers
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Category: government
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