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Linda McMahon: “I had an opportunity to really start a business, build it…”

Featuring: Linda McMahon, Republican | Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education | National

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I wanted to be a teacher and I passed the teaching boards and I was fully prepared to teach. And then life takes different twists and turns. I had an opportunity to really start a business, build it from the ground up more in just kind of a helping position to start with. And then that later led to more and more involvement and really helping to grow a business from. From the ground up. That came from sitting at your kitchen table working out things to really helping to found a company that is now traded on the New York Stock Exchange and is a global company. That's incredibly satisfying. Would I have ever dreamt when I was majoring in French in college, that there would come a day that I might use my French as I … (43:09–43:40)

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