Leon Panetta caps a career of toppling barriers

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The Defense secretary was determined to lift the ban on women in combat before leaving his post.

WASHINGTON — Leon E. Panetta was an obscure government lawyer in 1970 when President Nixon’s administration forced him to resign for enforcing civil rights and equal education laws too aggressively — an episode that helped launch hi…

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