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    ‘Stiffen your spine’: Breakfast with outgoing press secretary Jen Psaki

    by Linda Feldmann May 12, 2022 5 minutes

    The life of a White House press secretary isn’t easy. Reporters coming at you at all hours for answers, asking the same questions over and over. The fear that you’ll be caught off guard by a question, live on television. The nonstop ferreting out of answers from inside the White House – essentially, being a reporter yourself – so that you fully understand an issue and can explain it to the public.

    But for Jen Psaki, who finishes her 16-month stint as White House press secretary on Friday, the hardest part for her personally, she says, is the threats.

    “I have had nasty letters, texts to me with my personal address, the names of my children. It crosses lines, you know, and that’s when it becomes a little scary,” says Ms.

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