Dee Dee Myers

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Margaret Jane "Dee Dee" Myers (born September 1, 1961 in Quonset Point , Rhode Island ) was from January 20, 1993 to December 22, 1994 the first female press secretary of the White House during the administration of the 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton . She was the first woman in this office. Mike McCurry was her successor .

life and career

George W. Bush 2006 with six White House press officers. From left to right Joe Lockhart, Dee Dee Myers, Marlin Fitzwater, George Bush, Tony Snow , Ron Nessen, James Brady , his wife Sarah

Dee Dee Myers graduated from William S. Hart High School and Santa Clara University in California . Her first job in politics was in 1984 as an assistant in Walter Mondale's presidential election campaign. In 1988 she was on the press staff of the Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis . Among other things, she was the press spokeswoman for longtime Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and the California politician Dianne Feinstein before joining Bill Clinton's campaign team in 1991. After leaving the White House in 1994 she was in the political talk show Equal Time of the television channel CNBC for two years the liberal counterpart to the conservative co-presenters Mary Matalin and later Bay Buchanan.

Dee Dee Myers has since worked as a political commentator and book author and runs her own company, Dee Dee Myers & Associates . From 1999 to 2006 she acted as a consultant for the hit television series The West Wing and is considered a template for one of the series' main characters, White House Press Secretary CJ Cregg , played by Allison Janney . In 2008 Dee Dee Myers published the book Why Women Should Rule the World .

She is married to journalist Todd Purdum, with whom she has two children, and lives in Washington, DC

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ msnbc.com: What if women ruled the world?
  2. ↑ hws.edu: Dee Dee Myers
  3. ↑ 'West Wing': No matter the politics, love of country was always first ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

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Commons : Dee Dee Myers  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Myers, Dee Dee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Myers, Margaret Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Press Secretary, White House Spokeswoman (1993–1994)
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Quonset Point , Rhode Island