Alison Cheperdak

I would say the first lady's office in particular.

I would say the first lady's office.

I would also say the Office of Legislative Affairs.

But there's so many folks like OPA, the Office of Political Affairs.

Any office that is engaging with a lot of external entities, I would say, needs a high level of emotional intelligence.

And you see it on the Hill, too.

And this is folks of all political persuasions.

Being on Capitol Hill requires charisma and people skills and being disarming and making people feel welcome.

I think you're absolutely right.

I also grew up in the nineties and I actually wrote an editorial about this in the New Hampshire journal last week about how it wasn't that long ago where people didn't know, like, I have no idea who my grandparents are close with them, but it was just something that they didn't talk about.

And they were very well read.

They were very up on the news and what was happening in the world, but

They didn't talk about who they were voting for.

And now we're in this era where people want to know their dentist or their seamstress or their like kind of everyone that they're doing business with.

And I'm not saying that people shouldn't speak their mind if they want to, but it's an interesting time in that.

silence can be misinterpreted in a way that can be really hurtful for someone's reputation.

And people are demanding people to issue statements and all these kinds of things.

And I

I think it's gone a little too far.

But when we talk about politics, what I recommend today is that when you're first starting to meet someone, I don't recommend bringing it up.