As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.
I don’t do ordinary work. That is not me in the least.
There’s no time to waste. Every day, there needs to be movement on something.
It’s the past, it’s behind us, and that’s the end of it.
I love bringing people together. I think that the environment is so important in terms of what kind of relationships you might be able to create, how people get to know each other.
I’m a business person at heart.
Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like Ebony and Jet magazines.
How can we salute – encourage the American spirit? That means many different things to many different people.
We have not really advertised Chicago internationally.
I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.