Leon Panetta: Decisive Action

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🗓️ 9 October 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The last time the budget of the United States was balanced - and even had a surplus - Leon Panetta was in charge of it, as Director of the Office of Management & Budget. From the Nixon years through the Obama Administration, Panetta had a large, firm, warm-hearted hand in the government of the United States... leading Congressional committees, OMB, the staff of the White House, the CIA and the Pentagon. You could call him the ultimate public servant. On this episode he shares stories from every period of his government career, and he explains how they were all informed by his experiences growing up the child of Italian immigrants. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2017

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0:00.0	When Donald Trump, the candidate, was running for office, he mocked his opponent's experience
0:06.3	in public service, and he elevated his own lack of public service experience into a calling
0:12.4	card, or maybe better put a golden ticket that
0:16.1	gained him entry into the White House.
0:18.9	Well on today's episode Leon Panetta makes the case for public service.
0:24.0	He is, of course, former Secretary of Defense,
0:26.7	former Director of the CIA,
0:28.8	former White House Chief of Staff,
0:31.0	former Congressman, and former first lieutenant in the Army to name just a few of the
0:36.5	jobs on his long resume. And boy, does he have stories, juicy, revealing stories?
0:43.6	He also shares his views on the current state
0:46.2	of the country's affairs.
0:48.2	And he's cut a heck of a personal tale to tell
0:51.2	too about growing up as a first-generation American. This is what it takes,
0:57.0	a podcast about passion, vision, and perseverance from the Academy of Achievement.
1:04.0	I'm Alice Winkler.
1:06.0	Academy, this child is gifted.
1:09.0	And I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
1:12.0	If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity,
1:15.7	and you don't take it, you may never have another chance.
1:18.3	It all was so clear.
1:19.8	It was just like the picture started to form itself.
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