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Dee Dee Myers Biography

Margaret Jane "Dee Dee" Myers (born September 1, 1961) is an American political analyst who served as the White House Press Secretary during the first two years of the Clinton administration. She was the first woman and the second-youngest person to hold that position.

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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.

Alcohol, Cigarettes, Family, Funny Sarcastic, Priorities, Values

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.

Articulate, Ideas, Kind, Optimism, People, Talent

Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.

Conflict, Information, Process, Resolve

During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted.

Came, Developed, Filters, Powerful, Strip, Years

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.

Issues, Jobs, President, Press, Travel, White

Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.

Care, Economy, Legislative, Long, Taken, Worst Case Scenario

In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They didn't buy his alleged concern for the middle class.

1992, Campaigns, Class, Governor, Running, Upbringing

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.

Airplane, Borrowed, Flying, Reporter, Twins

I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point where you look in their eyes and they knew it was over. And there was never that point with Clinton. He never quit. He never gave up.

Campaigns, Eye, Gave, Looks, Point, Quit

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

Affects, Attitude, Leader, Public, Squares, Toward

I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.

Bonus, Men, Quality, Requirement, Supposed, Time

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

Children, Football, Ground, Leadership, Raising

Every press secretary faces an enormous amount of information. Events move really fast. You're responsible for a tremendous amount of information, and again, a tremendous amount on competing agendas. Not everybody grease in the White House.

Agendas, Events, House, Moving, White

1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six to the United States Senate.

Became, Elected, November, Office, United States, Years

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.

Analyst, Blue, Democrat, Host, House, White

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out.

Coming, Created, Going Out, Intentionally, President, Want

On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.

1979, College, Ivy, President, Running

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

Birthday, Children, Hours, Nursing, Variables, Women

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

Barack, Fame, History, Living, World

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.

Clinton, Country, Cutting, Hair, Metaphor

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