- Any cognitive dissonance Shays may have experienced concluding that a rapist can be a fit president was no doubt assuaged by the political plum clinton gave his wife.--Mia T
I believe the July 1998 appointment (in bold, below) is the one in question. Note that altho it was made before the impeachment vote, it was made by clinton's man...
Shays owed clinton. Shays was prepared to vote to impeach. He then went to "talk" privately with clinton.
clinton called in the favor, no doubt...How else do you explain Shays' outrageous conclusion that a rapist can be a fit president? Shame on him!
Betsi Shays appointed Peace Corps' Director of the Center for Field Assistance and Applied Research
Background
Since October, 2001, Betsi Shays has been the Peace Corps' Director of the Center for Field Assistance and Applied Research. From January through October 2001, she was 'acting' Director of Domestic Programs while continuing to serve as the Director of the Coverdell World Wise Schools Program, a position she was appointed to in July, 1998, by then Peace Corps Director, Mark Gearan.
Before working at the Peace Corps , Betsi spent 27 years in 1st - 10th grade classrooms. teaching social studies and language arts. During this time she took on professional development leadership roles in her district, was a team leader, and at one point ran a small middle school program in a private school setting.
While she was teaching, she spent eleven and a half years working on two graduate degrees at Columbia University, Teachers College: a Master and a Masters in Education in Educational Administration and Organizational Leadership.
After graduating from college, Betsi and her husband, Congressman Chris Shays (Republican - Connecticut), began their married life as Peace Corps Volunteers in the Fiji Islands, where they had two assignments: one a remote island, the other a small town where they worked in the poorest performing school in the country. They returned home to Connecticut where they raised their daughter.
MARK DANIEL GEARAN
Assistant to the President
Mark D. Gearan is Assistant to the President and Director of Communications and Strategic Planning. His public service career includes senior posts in state government, Capitol Hill and as a key presidential adviser in the White House.
Born in Gardner, Massachusetts, Gearan attended public schools and was graduated cum laude from Harvard College in 1978 with a degree in Government. He later earned his law degree in the evening division from Georgetown University Law Center.
White House
At the White House, Gearan served as Deputy Chief of Staff before his present assignment. During the transition of President-elect Clinton, he served as Deputy Director in charge of Washington operations for Transition Director Warren Christopher. As Vice President Gore's Campaign Manager in the 1992 presidential election, he travelled and advised the Vice President on issues and strategy.
State Government
In state government, Gearan was the Director of Federal State Relations for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for five years. In that post, he coordinated all legislative, administrative and regulatory matters before the federal government for the administration of Governor Michael S. Dukakis. In the presidential effort of Governor Dukakis, Gearan was the national headquarters Press Secretary.
For three years as Executive Director of the Democratic Governors' Association, Gearan instituted the National Policy Forum, expanded its membership and improved relations between the Governors and the Congressional leadership.
Capitol Hill
On Capitol Hill, Gearan worked for Iowa Congressman Berkley Bedell as his Administrative Assistant for three years. Prior to his work on Capitol Hill, he worked for a year as a reporter for the Fitchburg, MA Sentinel and Enterprise.
Mark Gearan is married to Mary Herlihy Gearan, whom he met when they both worked for Congressman Robert F. Drinan's re-election campaign in 1978. They have a three year old daughter, Madeleine.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
June 21, 1995
PRESIDENT CLINTON NOMINATES MARK GEARAN
TO BE PEACE CORPS DIRECTOR
On the South Lawn today, President Clinton made the following statement in nominating Mark Gearan to be Director of thePeace Corps.
"I want to make a brief announcement before I make the comments I have to make to you about education. Most of the people my age who were drawn into public service, as I hope each of you in your own way will become a public servant, even as a private citizen, were attracted by the example set by President Kennedy and the people who came into his administration. Many people now know that when I was about your age I met President Kennedy here in the Rose Garden 32 years ago next month. It inspired me and my entire generation to believe that we should ask not what our country could do for us, but what we could do for our country; how we could serve.
And when I became President I asked the American people to join me in a season of service. I asked the Congress to establish a national service corps, AmeriCorps, that would give our young people -- and sometimes people who aren't so young -- the opportunity to earn money for education, but to do it by serving people here in our community at the grass-roots level, all across this country. That idea was inspired by the Peace Corps. And the Peace Corps continues the tradition of service that John Kennedy established to this day.
President Kennedy started the Peace Corps to help expand the circle of freedom and democracy when it was threatened by communism and by the Cold War. But it has continued throughout all these years, in countries all across the globe, to help people solve real problems, to go beyond language and racial and ethnic and religious and the political differences, to unite us at the most fundamental human level in fulfilling our potential. The Peace Corps is very, very important.
Just a few weeks ago, my Director of the Peace Corps, Carol Bellamy, had the great honor to be named the head of UNICEF on behalf of the United Nations. And now I have to replace her. And today I want to announce that the distinguished gentleman behind me who has been my faithful friend and aide for many years, and now the White House Communications Director, Mark Gearan, will be the new Director of the Peace Corps.
I think it would be fair to say that if we had a secret ballot for who the most popular person working in the White House is, Mark Gearan would probably win it in a walk. He has the understanding and the ability to build bridges and the tenacity to cross them. I am proud to nominate him to lead our Peace Corps into the 21st century, to keep the vision and the spirit of John Kennedy alive and the dream of America alive all over the world.
Thank you.
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