Leon Panetta, 76, served under former US President Bill Clinton as White House chief of staff. He later served as defense secretary and the head of the CIA under President Barack Obama. He retired during the spring of 2013 and Penguin Press published his memoir, “Worthy Fights,” in October 2014.
SPIEGEL Interview with Leon Panetta
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Auntie, Sister. Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, Mother and Wife of German Descent I've lived in Australia since 1959 together with my husband Peter. We have four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. I started blogging because I wanted to publish some of my childhood memories. I am blogging now also some of my other memories. I like to publish some photos too as well as a little bit of a diary from the present time. Occasionally I publish a story with a bit of fiction in it. Peter, my husband, is publishing some of his stories under berlioz1935.wordpress.com View all posts by auntyuta
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This is an excellent interview, Uta. Thank you for posting it.
Thanks for reading it, Pat. I think it is great that the internet makes it possible for people like me to get some additional information about what is going on in the world. I find this crisis in Europe very worrying.
I do, too. And I worry that my country will spread itself too thin. I don’t know how other countries feel about it, but I am grateful that our President is Obama and not knee-jerk Bush. He scared me to death. How do Aussies feel about that?
Our government of course always goes along with whatever the US does or is planning to do. Personally I feel that Obama has only very, very limited power.