https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/06/politics/dianne-feinstein-badass-women-of-washington/index.html
SNIP of a most interesting story of her life in politics
Feinstein's trajectory to the Senate began with a double murder inside San Francisco City Hall.
Feinstein rarely talks about the day 40 years ago when Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician in America, were shot and killed. But she opened up with us in excruciating detail.
She was on the San Francisco board of supervisors then, and assassin Dan White had been a friend and colleague of hers.
"The door to the office opened, and he came in, and I said, 'Dan?'"
"I heard the doors slam, I heard the shots, I smelled the cordite," Feinstein recalled.
"He whisked by, everybody disappeared. I walked down the line of supervisors' offices. I walked into one and found Harvey Milk -- put my finger in a bullet hole trying to get a pulse.
But you know, it was the first person I'd ever seen shot to death, and you know when they're dead," she said.
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Senate Intelligence & defying President Obama:
Editor's Note:
This series was born during a lunch in early 2017, when we wondered what Hillary Clinton's loss meant for women.
Our answer: Women are already breaking barriers in a man's town, muscling their way into power and staying there. Their stories show there are Badass Women all around Washington.
— Dana Bash, Abigail Crutchfield & Rachel Smolkin
Washington (CNN)
I will never forget standing outside Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office in
December 2014 and seeing her husband, Richard Blum, coming down the hallway. As he walked in, I asked him, "You know your wife is a badass, right?" He looked at me, surprised and a bit confused, until I quickly assured him that was a compliment.
It was the first time I used the term "badass" to refer to a woman in Washington, especially to her husband, but it was well-deserved.
He had come to support his wife as she was about to do something courageous and controversial: defy the leader of her party, President Barack Obama, by publicly releasing a classified summary of a report she spearheaded as Senate intelligence chairwoman on post-9/11 enhanced interrogation tactics by the US government.
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