THE 1950s and ’60s brought many new things to American offices, including the Xerox machine, word processing and — perhaps less famously — the first National Secretaries Day, in 1952.

上个世纪的五、六十年代，像施乐复印机，文字处理机这样的新事物进入了美国的办公室，或许还有一样不太为人所知，那就是1952年有了第一个国际秘书日。

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Secretaries can only hope that bosses won’t take the human in question for granted, a sign that not everyone will be celebrating this Administrative Professionals Day.

秘书们唯一希望的就是老板们不要想当然地觉得他们很没用，哎，也不是每个秘书都想过秘书节的。

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Once there she wrote to Schneider that she was “very happy to be near him, especially now, ” and “The secretaries and I are practicing with the pistol every day.”

一次，她写信给施耐德说道：“能在他身边非常幸福，尤其是现在。”

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Six cabinet secretaries and several members of Congress were taking part in the day-long meeting.

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Presidents, Cabinet secretaries and Members of Congress routinely give more speeches in a day than the average CEO delivers in a month.

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And, while senior officials are entitled to make decisions about which of the countless number of memos generated every day they deem worthy of passing up the line and when, Secretaries of State generally rely as much on direct contacts with their counterparts as staff memoranda to keep them apprized of allied views about pending issues .

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