As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't care what your politics are, I would wager that if you asked any American woman which administration would she have most liked to work for as social secretary, she would pick Jacqueline Kennedy's White House as the place to be.
I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
I worked in the Clinton administration.
Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.
I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.
I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
I was a political reporter for quite some time, so I followed around all sorts of different politicians.
I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.
It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.
The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.