Dee Dee Myers

Margaret Jane " Dee Dee " Myers ( born September 1, 1961 in Quonset Point, Rhode Iceland ) was dated 20 January 1993 to 22 December 1994, the first spokeswoman for the White House during the reign of the 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton. She was the first woman to hold this office. Her successor was Mike McCurry.

Life and career

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

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

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

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