Ex-White House Aide Panetta, Wife to Open Public Policy Institute
Former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta and his wife, Sylvia, are forming a new public policy institute at Cal State Monterey Bay.
The Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit educational organization with the goal of inspiring young people to lives of public service.
Cal State Monterey Bay President Peter Smith and Cal State system Chancellor Charles Reed planned to join the Panettas at the campus near Monterey today to announce the new institute.
Panetta was named White House chief of staff by President Clinton in 1994. He served in that capacity until the end of the president’s first term.
Born and raised in Monterey, Panetta served 16 years in the House of Representatives, serving a district that included his hometown.
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