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...Office for Civil Rights, where he was in charge of enforcing equal education laws under President Richard Nixon. After Panetta vigorously worked to desegregate Southern schools, to the chagrin of Nixon administration officials such as Vice President Spiro Agnew, he was forced to resign from the post...
...member of the Iraq Study Group along with Robert Gates before Gates became Defense Secretary - a post he will keep in the new Obama Administration...
...time he was here two weeks, I could see how calm things were...He increased the confidence level." - Bill Clinton, on Panetta's debut as White House Chief of Staff, Washington Post...
...will bring a wealth of knowledge of the government to the C.I.A. post and an outside perspective that I think might be helpful at this juncture in the C.I.A.'s history." - Lee Hamilton, former Congressman and co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, New York Times...
...Within Russia, where Orthodox Christmas is celebrated Wednesday, the stakes for succession are high. Alexy, who rose to power in 1990, led his church through the convulsive but ultimately fruitful transition to the post-Soviet era. Religious freedom blossomed. The church, which counts some 110 million faithful (though far fewer attend church regularly), grew in importance after decades of suppression under Communism...