'Never give up': How hockey propelled deputy secretary

摘要

Ice hockey groomed Katharine MacGregor. The 38-year-old deputy secretary of the Interior lights up when she considers some lessons learned from what she calls her passion, a rambunctious sport she's played much of her life. Persist? Check. How to take a hit? Yup. Play offense? Without a doubt. "I'm from a family with all boys anyway," MacGregor said in an interview, "but it's really helped me be aggressive all the time, which is probably my reputation." These qualities have come in handy in a department that can be skeptical of the president. Asked whether she'd say some career Interior staffers are unsympathetic to the administration's priorities, MacGregor hit the question head on. "I would, definitely," MacGregor said. Even her interest in the history that the Interior Department helps curate - she's recently been savoring one of author and historian Shelby Foote's Civil War volumes - can be traced to the rink.