August 4th to speak on the avenue of spies. Thank you again to all veterans who are here and also to jonathan jordan. [applause] i am delighted to be with you today senator mccaskill i feel we should start at the very beginning which is the title. Which where did you come up with that . Is using has a little bit of irony and a trademark attitude. Guest and i hope a little humor. That i am confident will make them laugh or smile hearted different places. It is what happens in my life with the teacher said i need to quit speaking up so much in class that the boy is would not like the end it was not ladylike and theyre really impacted me and i was hurt. After my first debate telling the press that i was not very ladylike. So those two reaffirmed in my mind that i have to communicate to other young women is plenty ladylike to be opinionated and ambitious and i hope that is what is the hands for. Many of which are not nearly as craig and as outspoken but the notion to be ladylike it is pret
Its a great example of how you strategically think about your role. I had really pulled off a campaign. It was a great way of reinforcing the strategy. I love that you told that story. There is a bookshelf a mile high with important figures in washington. I had never read and antic dont like that in any book. Honestly, because a lot of their frustration is dont say too much. I am really struck by that that you are willing to go back to it did that feel risky to you . It did. I had a colleague try to talk me out of it. Claire, really you shouldnt go there. You shouldnt tell people about that. They flagged several things. Yes they flagged several pages of things in the book. But that wasnt really what this was about. This wasnt about writing me up and making me look like im a wonderful politician and going to save america. It was painful. It was hard to talk about my first marriage and the failure of that marriage and dealing with all of that in this book and discuss my mother and the am
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