I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That's the day I showed up for work at 'The New Republic' magazine.
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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.
I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.
I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.
And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.
My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.
I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.
In the '80s, Ronald Reagan inspired me to become politicized, because I grew up in that era when everything I cared about was under attack.
I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.
That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit.