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New! "The story is the difference" with West Wing Writer Vinca LaFleur.

Making Data Simple

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Then I Got a Job at the State Department, a Speechwriter for President Clinton

The Foreign Service Exam wasn't even going to be offered again the next year because there was a class action suit against it saying it discriminated against women. And I suddenly, you know, had to scramble and figure out what I was going to do next. In any event, what happened was I ended up getting a job on Capitol Hill. Answering mail on foreign policy for a liberal senator from Illinois named Paul Simon. Then I went, as you said, to the US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Shortly after the Berlin Wall had come down, I did a lot of international election observing in Romania,. Moldova traveled a lot in that part of the world at a very exciting

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