Van Jones Talks About His “Rough Exit” from the White House
The last time Van Jones spoke at a Campus Progress National Convention, he was an environmental adviser in the White House — “and now I’m not,” he said at this year’s conference Wednesday. “That sucks.”
But despite his self-described “rough exit” from the White House last September, he said he wouldn’t trade the experience for anything.
“What I learned in those six months [in the White House] I am going to be able to take with me forever,” he said addressing a group of 1,200 young liberal activists at the Campus Progress national conference in downtown Washington. It was Jones’ first high-profile remarks about his White House experience.
“If you were given the same opportunity I was to go and serve for six months, and it was 100 percent guaranteed that you’d have the same rough exit that I had, do it — it’s worth every minute,” he said.
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