October 15, 2014, 7:30pm.
Presented with the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts: Leon Panetta with Jessica Yellin. Tickets here.
At the beautiful new Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts, 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills.
Sure, Leon Panetta served for several terms as a respected congressman and ultimate powerbroker in Congress. President Clinton nabbed him as his budget czar, and named him White House Chief of Staff. After a short retirement, he ricocheted back to Washington, where he landed as Director of the CIA. It was under Leon Panetta’s watch at the CIA in which United States intelligence forces located and killed Osama Bin Laden. As if that wasn’t enough post-retirement activity, President Obama named Panetta U.S. Secretary of Defense, during a time when our country was involved in two wars. In his new memoir, Worthy Fights, Panetta lays out his moral conflicts, and his great challenges, with unexpected humor and a fascinating view on the hugest global events – and personalities—of our time.
In conversation with Jessica Yellin, former Chief White House Correspondent for CNN. For ten years, she provided breaking news and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail for CNN and ABC News. She is a fellow with the Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy.