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  USCCB - (Office of Media Relations) - Hon. Leon E. Panetta
Leon Edward Panetta has had a long and distinguished career in public service, ranging from his duty in the U.S. Army to his service as the Chief of Staff to the President of the United States.
Panetta was appointed Chief of Staff to the President of the United States on July 17, 1994, and served in that position until January 20, 1997.
Panetta is married to the former Sylvia Marie Varni, who administered his district offices during his service in Congress and continues as a partner in his many activities.
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 Online NewsHour: Leon Panetta Biography
Leon Panetta was born in Monterrey, California, on June 28, 1938, and continues to make his permanent residence in Carmel Valley, California.
Leon Leon Panetta served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army from 1964 to 1966, and received the Army Commendation Medal.
In 1966, Leon Panetta served in Washington as legislative assistant to Senator Thomas Kuchel of California, the Senate Minority Whip.
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 Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
Panetta's 16 years in the U.S. House representing Monterey, Calif., included a stint as chairman of the Budget Committee before he became director of the Office of Management and Budget in 1993.
Leon Panetta: First of all, I do think that the administration made a very serious miscalculation on environmental issues that could in many ways be compared to Clinton's gaffe on gays in the military.
Leon Panetta: There is no question that the vice president has a very significant role in this White House when it comes to policy, and I do believe that the description of prime minister reflects the level of influence that he has.
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 Leon Panetta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leon Edward Panetta (born June 28, 1938) is a former White House Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton, a former member of the United States House of Representatives, and the founder and director of the Panetta Institute.
Panetta switched to the Democratic Party in 1971, as he felt the Republican Party was moving away from the center and was working against civil rights legislation.
Panetta was instrumental in creating CSU Monterey by converting Fort Ord, where he was chief of operations and planning of the intelligence section when he was in the army, into the university.
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 Panetta Library
Panetta is currently co-directs, with his wife Sylvia, the Leon and Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy, based at California State University, Monterey Bay – a university he helped establish on the site of the former military base, Fort Ord.
Panetta was chosen to serve on the Iraq Study Group, a bi-partisan committee established at the urging of Congress and organized by the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Center for the Study of the Presidency and the James A. Baker III Institute.
Panetta also was the founding executive director of the Foundation to Support the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District, a non-profit organization designed to promote and provide grants to programs serving children within that district.
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 Leon Panetta tells Cal Poly audience U.S. governed by crisis
Panetta said that John F. Kennedy, with his “Ask not what your country can do for you …” speech, was the president who most inspired him to go into public service.
Surveys conducted by the Panetta Institute at CSU Monterey Bay have shown that today’s college students believe they are the first generation that will not have a better world to live in.
Panetta believes leadership can blossom if there is bipartisan commitment and cooperation, but he said he doesn’t see much hope in that happening soon, because both parties are in the trenches “firing grenades” at each other.
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 CNN Interactive Chat Transcript - Former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta
Leon Panetta: The first responsibility is to put a transition office together that can begin the process of gathering resumes of all those interested in the positions and also the resumes of those that are being recommended for possible appointments by the president-elect and his advisors.
Leon Panetta: That's a good question because I believe that since we are in a period where both sides are claiming they have won, it would be appropriate for both to commence their transition effort.
Leon Panetta: There is no question that the earlier this process can begin, the more time a president-elect has to consider a broader range of names, not only within his own party but the opposing party as well.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State/The West -- Davis names Leon Panetta to lead budget committee
Panetta, a former representative from Monterey County who also served as President Clinton's budget director, promised to assemble a bipartisan team of experts to examine the state's boom and bust economic system that has become complicated over the years by politics.
Panetta said the uncertainty of the recall means the committee will not begin "serious" consideration of budget issues until after the election – assuming that Davis is not recalled.
Panetta said if Davis is not recalled and the committee moves forward, he would like to present recommendations to the governor before the end of the year.
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 Online NewsHour: The Florida Recount -- November 10, 2000
LEON PANETTA: Well, there's no question that there is going to be a tough choice that has to be made by either one of these candidates at some point.
LEON PANETTA: The greatest strength of this country is our confidence in the stability of the United States of America.
LEON PANETTA: The reality is that obviously all of us, as American citizens, enjoy a wonderful right in this country that our forefathers gave us to exercise the freedom of elections, and the ability to vote is the most important right we can have in a democracy.
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 Washington Speakers Bureau: Leon Panetta
Panetta was asked by President Clinton to become chief of staff at a time when White House staff was in turmoil and the President's reelection was in serious doubt.
Panetta's audiences are treated to someone who understands how federal budgets are shaped, and what the federal government must do to ensure a stable economy and bottom-line growth.
A passionate speaker, Panetta imparts lessons from his life and the principles that drove a nation in the post-war era, envisioning a future where opportunity is available to all who strive for it.
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 MetroActive News & Issues | Leon Panetta
Leon Panetta's years of experience in Congress and the White House may not be enough to land him in the governor's mansion
Panetta, who represented the environmentally conscious Central Coast for 16 years as a U.S. Congress member and who has an extensive civil rights record (he served in 1969 as director for the U.S. Office of Civil Rights), does come across as stronger on some fundamental liberal principles than Feinstein.
Panetta never really had to face serious contenders and never had to develop the kind of big-donor base that could put him in good stead in a gubernatorial race.
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 The People & The Power Game: Interview with Leon Panetta
PANETTA: There was kind of a self admission that the strategy that they had designed around the budget had failed, that they basically had based their whole strategy on the fact that the President would break.
PANETTA: Well, that was another thing that I just -- I never quite understood what the hell they were doing in these talks, because I'm used to a process of negotiation, which means you sit down and it's back and forth, it's give and you lay a part of your proposal down.
PANETTA: You aren't just dealing with a power center at all, you're dealing with a whole series of different power centers and personalities and egos and turfs and jurisdictions and people who have their own political ax to grind one way or another.
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 William J. Clinton Foundation "Interview of Chief Staff Leon Panetta"
PANETTA: Number one, in dealing with the budget, we've always been very clear about the steps that have to be taken to reduce the deficit.
PANETTA: There were also some other concerns about the -- how the tours would be made and who would be present at the tours, and that was another issue that they were looking at.
PANETTA: When we were working the schedule, he had kind of suggested an interest since he was bouncing all over the place -- and he always has an interest in those things -- of whether or not he could at least take some time to see the holy sites.
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 CNN Interactive Chat Transcript - Leon Panetta
Leon Panetta: It was clear from the time that I served the president as director of the Office of Management and Budget, which was before I became chief of staff, that he had a great interest in making sure that his legacy would benefit the American people and be one that would last in history.
Leon Panetta: I have always felt that this was a major turning point in the administration and particularly for the president himself.
Leon Panetta: I am someone who for 30 years has been involved in politics of one kind or another--as a Congressman, as a member of the president's Cabinet, and as his chief of staff.
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 Panetta Institute
The Panetta Institute, established in December 1998, serves as a non-partisan center for the study of public policy aimed at helping our communities and our country meet the challenges of the 21st Century.
Founded and directed by former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta and his wife Sylvia, the Institute is located at California State University, Monterey Bay, and serves the entire CSU system.
Each year, the Leon Panetta Lecture Series brings national political leaders and policy thinkers to the Monterey Peninsula to discuss important issues of the day.
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 Leon E. Panetta Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Leon E. Panetta (born 1938) served in the House of Representatives for 16 years before President Bill Clinton appointed him director of the Office of Management and Budget in 1993.
Leon E. Panetta was born in Monterey, California, on June 28, 1938, to Italian immigrant parents, Carmelo Frank and Cramelina Maria (Prochilo) Panetta.
In 1964 Panetta was commissioned in the United States Army, rising from second lieutenant to captain during his three-year stint.
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 William J. Clinton Foundation "Press Briefing by Leon Panetta"
PANETTA: The one quality she cannot replace is the ability to play golf, but I am sure she will be able to teach the President a few things -- (laughter) -- about backgammon.
PANETTA: Well, that's why -- I mean, I think, again, it was clearly the view of the principals in the Oval Office that this would be a recess.
PANETTA: I honestly don't think that he wants that to happen because, I think, Pete Domenici of all people recognizes the importance of trying to get a balanced budget.
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 05.08.2003 - Leon Panetta to speak at 2003 Commencement Convocation
BERKELEY – Leon Panetta, former White House chief of staff and U.S. congressman from California, will speak about "the challenge of being the greatest generation" at the University of California, Berkeley's 2003 Commencement Convocation on Thursday, May 15.
Panetta was appointed by President Bill Clinton to be his chief of staff in 1994.
Panetta currently co-directs, with his wife Sylvia, the Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy based at California State University, Monterey Bay - a campus he helped establish on the site of a former military base, Fort Ord.
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 Lonely voice in Democrats' corral - The Washington Times: Commentary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Veteran Democratic strategist Leon Panetta fears his party is going to be torn apart in the 2004 elections if it does not break the bad habit of pandering to its special interests.
Panetta's teeth on edge, one that raises this troubling question for the Democrats: Are they going to be the party that does the bidding of special interests with narrow agendas or are they going to appeal to the broader national electorate?
Panetta is a lonely voice in a party that has become a Tower of Babel of competing demands, divisions and complaints.
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 RealClearPolitics - Articles - Rep. Jane Harman, Rep. Peter Hoekstra, Leon Panetta, Ken Duberstein, Roundtable
Panetta, about what you are discussing, the fact that in the end it's policy, not personnel, that's going to make a difference.
Panetta, you took over as chief of staff for Bill Clinton in June of 1994 when that White House was widely seen as being in disarray.
Panetta, talk about the relationship between the chief of staff and the president, and what is it that Josh Bolten needs to be saying both in terms of substance and maybe also just in terms of their relationship when he's alone with George W. Bush in the Oval Office?
www.realclearpolitics.com /articles/2006/04/rep_jane_harman_rep_peter_hoek.html   (0 words)

  
 CSUMB History :: Leon Panetta Lecture Series Announced
Leon Panetta, former Chief of Staff for the Clinton Administration and current CSU Chancellor's Distinguished Scholar, and Dr. Peter Smith, CSUMB's founding president, speak with members of the media on October 17 about the upcoming opening of the new Leon Panetta Lecture Series.
The Leon Panetta Lecture Series, to be held annually, will explore the public policy challenges that face our nation and the world, examining the roles of government, political parties, the news media and the people.
Leon Panetta and President Smith announce that the first lecture will take place on October 20 at the Steinbeck Forum of the Monterey Conference Center.
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 Santa Clara University Press Releases - Leon Panetta calls for national community service for young people
In a morning keynote speech to an international audience of 500 from Jesuit colleges and universities, Panetta said that addressing a lack of interest in public service among today's youth is a major challenge facing Jesuit educators.
His institute surveyed college students recently and learned that students believe that "whatever is happening in Washington, or for that matter the state capital, is just not relevant to what they care about." At the same time, the survey found that 75 percent of the students said they would volunteer for service in their community.
Panetta's speech was the lead keynote address to the international conference on Jesuit education at the University.
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 The Moderate Voice - Leon Panetta To Democrats: "Govern Don't Gloat"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Leon Panetta remains one of the most respected members of the Democratic party.
Today he's sometimes seen at the nonprofit Panetta Institute, which he founded and directs with and his wife Sylvia at at California State University, Monterey Bay.
Panetta recounts the turbulent history of 1994, when the GOP responded with The Contract On America, confronted Clinton and contributed to the shutdown of the federal government.
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 Event Archive: Leon Panetta - Commonwealth Club
Panetta, but I have to tell you that a plane just went into the White House." I said, "Well, was it a B-10?
Was it a 747?" He said, "No, no, it was a light plane, and it went up against the side of the White House.
One of the reasons my wife and I began The Panetta Institute for Public Policy is because we were concerned about some of the attitudes I was seeing in young people about public life and public service.
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 Former Congressman Leon Panetta to Speak at Cal Poly
SAN LUIS OBISPO –– Leon Panetta, former U.S. representative and chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, will come to Cal Poly on Friday, Oct. 28, to open the 2005 Provocative Perspectives speakers’ series.
Panetta, who was elected to serve the Central Coast for nine congressional terms, will speak on the topic of leadership and contemporary issues at 7:30 a.m.
Panetta and his wife, Sylvia, currently co-direct the Leon and Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy, based at CSU Monterey Bay.
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 Instituting Change / Leon Panetta's journey from the OMB to Monterey Bay
Leon Panetta's journey from the OMB to Monterey Bay
One day Leon Panetta was White House chief of staff, sitting in the president's box at the inauguration.
This was an improvement in circumstance because in Washington, D.C., Panetta and his wife, Sylvia, lived in a basement apartment where they could watch legs walk by.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/01/25/CMGT43OMH110.DTL   (0 words)

  
 Leon Panetta shares behind-the-scenes details from Iraq Study Group - By Genevieve Bookwalter - Sentinel staff writer - ...
Former Central Coast Rep. Leon Panetta was struck with how bad the situation in Iraq really is when his airplane had to spiral down 10,000 feet to avoid missiles as it landed in Baghdad.
Panetta, 68, was one of the youngest on the team, made up of five Democrats and five Republicans.
The most haunting part of that three-day trip to Iraq, Panetta said, was the helicopters that flew in almost all night, delivering the wounded to the hospital.
www.santacruzsentinel.com /archive/2006/December/07/local/stories/01local.htm   (0 words)

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