CNN 20: Reno Named 1st Female Attorney General, February 11, 1993
BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, FEBRUARY 11, 1993) BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR: President Clinton's new nominee for attorney general, Janet Reno, has said today her first priority will be to curb violent crime. If confirmed by the Senate, the veteran Miami-area prosecutor says, she will bring to the job firsthand experience in crime fighting.</s>WOLF BLITZER, CNN WASHINGTON ANCHOR: Bill Clinton, he made a point repeatedly of saying he is going to have a cabinet that looks like America. In other words, not just a cabinet of middle aged or elderly white men. He's going to have African-Americans, Hispanics and he's going to have women. (</s>BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, FEBRUARY 11, 1993) WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: She possesses one quality most essential to being attorney general: unquestioned integrity.</s>JANET RENO, ATTORNEY GENERAL: I want to let people know that crime doesn't pay.</s>BLITZER: She got the nomination and Bill Clinton had his female attorney general. The first time in American history a woman was going to become the attorney general of the United States. I liked Janet Reno because she was feisty, she was smart, she was aggressive, and she was, in a sense, controversial so she was always a good guest for me to interview. But she was a no-nonsense and still is a no-nonsense attorney general. She wants things to move in the direction she is moving. (</s>BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, FEBRUARY 11, 1993) RENO: I will work with all the administration to end racial, ethnic and gender discrimination and disharmony in America.