Panetta On Hagel Delay: Let Me ‘Get The Hell Out Of Town’ Already

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By Agence France-Presse
Thursday, February 14, 2013 17:32 EST

With a feuding Senate holding up approval of his successor, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday joked that he hoped he would be allowed “to get the hell out of town” and retire as planned.

At an event honoring recently retired Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 74-year-old Panetta said he was anxious to relinquish the reins as Pentagon chief and expressed envy that Clinton had been liberated from her duties.

“She’s made it. And, you know, I’m going to have as broad a smile as she does, hopefully, in a few days,” he told military officers and diplomats at the Pentagon.


“My office is packed up,” he said, and his wife, Sylvia, was packing up his home in Washington. “I’m ready to go. It’s like, ‘All right.’”

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1. Republicans did this to him.