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Inside the room where Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence shared an emotional embrace in front of America’s leadership class
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It lasted surprisingly long, roughly 20 seconds.
Key facts
- It is measured on the hard ones when doing your duty costs you something. ….On January 6, 2021, the Vice President was asked to set aside the Constitution
- Other attendees who lifted the off-record ground rules to express their support for the awards included former HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Chief Executive Group CEO Marshall Cooper, USA
- Robert Hormats, who served as a senior State Department economic official across five administrations, was more emphatic, describing Pence and Pelosi as “HEROES WHO SAVED OUR DEMOCRACY THAT DAY. …
- Carla Hills, a Republican who served as U.S. Trade Representative and HUD Secretary, offered a parallel case for Pelosi: “In these highly partisan days, Nancy Pelosi has been a model for outstanding
Summary
When Nancy Pelosi walked into the room, more than halfway through the event, a hush fell over the crowd and all turned to look. The House Speaker Emerita—who is completing her final term after nearly four decades representing San Francisco—and the former vice president—who spent January 6, 2021, resisting his own president’s demand that he overturn a certified election—came together in Washington D.C. at the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute, hosted by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, the Lester Crown Professor in Management Practice and Senior Associate Dean at Yale School of Management. The team watched it happen from the floor as Fortune ‘s representatives at the closed-door gathering, whose off-the-record ground rules were lifted by everyone named in this article. The award, inaugurated this year to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence, went to Pelosi for “Legislative Leadership” and to Pence for “Executive Leadership.