Menu Sections Featured Topics Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta calls for ‘tough leadership’ to emerge this election year The California native believes the country is at a crossroads: It could boast a strong economy or be divided by fear and prejudice BY April 27, 2016 Leon Panetta speaks at the USC President's Distinguished Lecture. (Photo/Steve Cohn) California native has held public office by election or appointment since the 1970s, but he is sure that he has never before observed such political polarization between candidates and government leaders in his entire career. Speaking before a few hundred attendees of the President’s Distinguished Lecture on April 25, the former California congressman and U.S. secretary of defense warned that the friction between presidential candidates
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