Incoming White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre attended what is now called Joseph A. McNeil Elementary School in Hempstead. On Thursday, students at her alma mater wrote her letters expressing their pride in the first openly gay person to achieve her position. Newsday TV’s Cecilia Dowd reports. Credit: Kendall Rodriguez; AP

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