- Karl Rove
Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) is Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush. He has headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. For most of his career prior to his employment at the White House, Rove was a political consultant. Rove's election campaign clients have included George W. Bush (2000 and 2004 presidential elections, 1994 and 1998 Texas gubernatorial elections), …
- Harriet Miers
Harriet Miers serves as Counsel to the President. Most recently, she served as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff, and prior to that she was Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary. Ms. Miers has a long and distinguished professional career. Before joining the President's staff, she was Co-Managing Partner at Locke Liddell & Sapp, LLP from 1998-2000.
- White House Chief Of Staff
The White House Chief of Staff is the highest-ranking member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States and a senior aide to the President and can be a very powerful position, and the Chief of Staff is sometimes dubbed "The Second-Most Powerful Man in Washington". Joshua B. Bolten has served as White House Chief of Staff since April 14, 2006.
- Edwin Meese
Mr. Meese served as attorney general of the United States from 1985 to 1988, during which time he championed what he termed the "jurisprudence of original intent." Calling for fidelity to the intentions of the Constitution's framers and ratifiers, he opposed the judicial activism of the modern Supreme Court and helped bring about the nomination and confirmation of Supreme Court justices and hundreds of federal court judges pledged to the philosophy of judicial restraint.
- Mark Gearan
Mark Gearan is a politician, lawyer and communications expert. He is the current President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. During the Clinton Administration he served several roles. Gearan was director of the Peace Corps from 1995 to 1999. Prior to his Peace Corps directorship, he was assistant to the President and White House Director of Communications, a position with the title of White House Deputy Chief of Staff.
- Michael Whouley
Michael Whouley is a Democratic political consultant who specializes in get out the vote operations. Whouley is President of the Dewey Square Group, a consulting firm that works for both political and corporate clients as lobbyists and campaign strategists. Whouley was a key strategist for Bill Clinton, serving as his field director during the 1992 election. Following Clinton's innaguration, Whouley became a lobbyist on behalf of pro-NAFTA interests.
- Karen Hughes
Karen Parfitt Hughes (born December 27, 1956) is a Republican politician from the state of Texas. She currently serves as the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the U.S. Department of State with the rank of ambassador. She resides in Austin, Texas where she is an elder in her church, Westlake Hills Presbyterian.
- James Carville
James Carville (born October 25, 1944), is an American political consultant, commentator, media personality and pundit. Known as the "Ragin' Cajun", Carville gained national attention for his work as the lead strategist of the successful 1992 presidential campaign of then-Arkansas governor Bill Clinton. Carville was the co-host of CNN's "Crossfire" until its final broadcast in June 2005. Since its cancellation, he has appeared on CNN's new program, …
- Stephen Friedman
Stephen Friedman, born December_21, 1937, is the current Chairman of the United States President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He was nominated on October 27, 2005 to replace Brent Scowcroft in the position. Friedman graduated from Cornell University in 1959, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He received his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1962. He worked for much of his career with investment bank Goldman Sachs, …
- David Addington
David S. Addington (b. January 22, 1957, Washington, D.C.), is chief of staff and former legal counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney. He was appointed to replace Lewis "Scooter" Libby as Cheney's chief of staff upon Libby's resignation on October 28, 2005. He was described by "U.S. News and World Report" as "the most powerful man you've never heard of".
- Lawrence B. Lindsey
Lawrence B. Lindsey was Director of the National Economic Council (2001-2002), and the Assistant to the President on Economic Policy for the U.S. President George W. Bush. He played a leading role in formulating President Bush's $1.35 billion tax cut plan, convincing candidate Bush that he needed an "insurance policy" against an economic turndown.
- Nelson Cunningham
Nelson Cunningham is an American. As of 2004 he is managing partner of Kissinger McLarty Associates. He served on the White House staff under President Bill Clinton and advised John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign on Western Hemisphere and international economic and trade issues.
- Minyon Moore
Minyon Moore (born May 16, 1958) in Chicago, Illinois is a founder of America Coming Together, and heads Dewey Square Group's state and local practice. She was formerly COO of the Democratic National Committee, and before that, assistant to the President of the United States and Director of White House Political Affairs under President Bill Clinton. Before that, Moore worked as an advisor to the presidential campaign of Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1984 and 1988.
- Elliott Abrams
Elliott Abrams (born January 24, 1948) is an American lawyer who has served in foreign policy positions for two Republican U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. During Bush's first term in office, he was appointed the post of Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director on the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs.
- Bruce Lindsey
Bruce R. Lindsey currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the William J. Clinton Foundation and splits his time between the Foundation's New York and Little Rock offices. He has been a long-time advisor to former President Bill Clinton. During the eight years of the Clinton Administration, he served as an Assistant to the President, Deputy White House Counsel, and Senior Advisor. During 1993, Mr.
- Paul Begala
Mr. Begala's experience in corporate communications included having served as Senior Vice President of the communications strategy firm Public Strategies, Inc. where his clients included such industry leaders as Coca-Cola and Southwest Airlines.
- Joe Allbaugh
Joe M. Allbaugh (born July 27, 1952) is an American political figure in the Republican Party. After spending most of his career in Oklahoma and Texas, Allbaugh came to national prominence working for Texas governor George W. Bush and helping manage his 2000 presidential election campaign. Allbaugh then became a member of Bush's cabinet as Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) beginning in February 2001.
- Ken Mehlman
Kenneth Brian Mehlman (born August 21, 1966, Baltimore, Maryland) is an American attorney who was chairman of the Republican National Committee from 2005 to 2007. He served as the campaign manager for George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign. In a June 2007 press release by the White House website, Mehlman was nominated by President George W. Bush to be a board member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial committee.
- David Wilhelm
David Wilhelm (born October 2 1956) is an American political operative and businessman. A native of Appalachian Ohio, Wilhelm is a venture capitalist who focuses on spurring sustainable economic growth in areas that tend not to receive much investment. He received his B.A. from Ohio University, Master in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and honorary doctorates from Ohio University and the University of Charleston.
- Michael Gallagher
Michael D. Gallagher is the Assistant Secretary for Commerce and Information in the United States Department of Commerce and Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. He is the chief technology advisor to President George W. Bush. Gallagher was installed into office on October 14, 2003, via a recess appointment, bypassing Senate approval. He has since been approved by the Senate.
- Allan Hubbard
Allan Hubbard is the Assistant to President George W. Bush for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council. Hubbard received his B.A. degree from Vanderbilt University in 1969. In 1975, Mr. Hubbard received a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he was a classmate of Bush's. He was previously the director of E & A Industries, a conglomerate in Indiana that owns three chemical companies, among others.
- Faryar Shirzad
Faryar Shirzad is a former White House Deputy Assistant for International Economic Affairs to President George W. Bush and the Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs, serving in this role from 2004 to 2006. As of August 3, 2006, he is a vice president at Goldman Sachs serving as Director of International Public Policy. In his role at the White House, he was President Bush’s representative to the G-8 ("G-8 Sherpa").
- Evelyn S. Lieberman
Evelyn S. Lieberman is an American public affairs professional who, during the Clinton administration, became the first woman to serve as White House deputy chief of staff. She also became the first United States Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, and served as Director of Communications and Public Affairs at the Smithsonian Institution.
- Mary Matalin
Mary Joe Matalin (born September 19, 1953) is an American political strategist and consultant. She is known for her work with the Republican Party. She was an assistant to President George W. Bush and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney until 2003. In April 2004, she published the book "Letters to My Daughters". In March of 2005, Matalin was chosen to run a new conservative publishing imprint at Simon & Schuster.
- Bernard Baruch
Bernard Mannes Baruch (August 19, 1870-June 20, 1965) was an American financier, stock market speculator, statesman, and presidential adviser. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising Democratic presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters.
- Roger Ailes
Roger Eugene Ailes (born May 15, 1940) is the president of Fox News Channel and chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group.
- Harold M. Ickes
Harold McEwen Ickes (born September 4, 1939) was deputy White House chief of staff for President Bill Clinton. He is the son of Harold L. Ickes, who was Secretary of the Interior under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Ickes chaired Clinton's presidential campaign in New York in 1992. Before that, he was a senior advisor to David Dinkins' successful mayoral election in 1989. In 2000, he was a senior advisor to Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign.
- Brent Scowcroft
Brent Scowcroft (born March 19 1925 in Ogden, Utah) was the United States National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush and a Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force. He also served as Military Assistant to President Richard Nixon and as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the Nixon and Ford administrations.
- Michael Gerson
Michael John Gerson (born May 15, 1964, New Jersey) is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.. He served as President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter from 2001-2006 until June 2006, and as a senior policy advisor from 2000 through June 2006. A member of the White House Iraq Group, Gerson was called "the conscience of the White House" by some admirers.
- Joel Kaplan
Joel Kaplan is the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy for U.S President George W. Bush. He is currently one of three Deputy Chiefs of Staff at the White House, along with Karl Rove, Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Planning, and Joe Hagin, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. He took over policy planning from Karl Rove on April 19, 2006, as part of a staff shake-up by Josh Bolten, the White House Chief of Staff.
- Gary Edson
Gary Edson is an American political economist. Edson was formerly the Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States for International Economic Affairs, and Deputy National Security Advisor. He has been the Deputy Director for International Affairs at the United States National Economic Council since 2001. Edson received a B.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University.
- David Gergen
David Gergen is a professor of public service and Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He served in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1995, first as Counselor to the President and then as Special Adviser to the President and the Secretary of State. He served as director of communications for President Reagan and also held positions in the administrations of Presidents Nixon and Ford.
- Vince Foster
Vincent Walker Foster, Jr. was a deputy White House counsel during the first term of President Bill Clinton, and also a law partner and personal acquaintance of Hillary Clinton. He was found dead in Fort Marcy Park off the George Washington Parkway in Virginia, outside Washington, D.C. His death was ruled a suicide by investigations conducted by the United States Park Police, the United States Congress, and Independent Counsels Robert B. Fiske and Kenneth Starr..
- Lee Atwater
Harvey Leroy "Lee" Atwater (February 26, 1951 - March 29, 1991) was an American Republican political consultant and strategist. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated from Newberry College, a small private Lutheran institution in Newberry, South Carolina. Atwater was a trusted advisor of U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. He was also a political mentor and close friend of Karl Rove.
- Claude Allen
Claude Alexander Allen (born October 11, 1960) was the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy in George W. Bush's White House and a former nominee for a judgeship on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The conservative African-American Republican was appointed to his White House position in January 2005. Allen resigned February 9, 2006, stating he wanted to spend more time with his family.
- Geoffrey Kemp
Geoffrey Kemp is the Director of Regional Strategic Programs at The Nixon Center. He has had a long career in academic and research communities and the U.S. Government. After graduating from Oxford University in 1965 he was appointed as a Research Associate at the London based Institute for Strategic Studies (ISS) (the Institute was later to be named the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)).
- Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- Keith Hennessey
Keith Hennessey is a Deputy Assistant to the U.S. President for Economic Policy and Deputy Director of the U.S. National Economic Council. He advises White House staff on domestic economic policy issues. He was first appointed to the position in August 2002. He worked for Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott from February 1997 to August 2002. While in Senator Lott's office, he was involved in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and all budget resolutions since 1997, …
- George Stephanopoulos
George Robert Stephanopoulos (born February 10, 1961) is an American broadcaster and political adviser. He is currently ABC News's Chief Washington Correspondent and the host of ABC's Sunday morning news show "This Week". Prior to joining ABC News, he was a senior political adviser to the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign of Bill Clinton and later became Clinton's communications director. He is married to actress Alexandra Wentworth, with whom he has two daughters.
- Brain Trust
The "Brain Trust" or "Brains Trust" was the name given to a diverse group of economists, professors, and others who served as advisors to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the early period of his tenure. These men played a key role in shaping the policies of the First New Deal. Although they never met together as a group, they each had Roosevelt's ear. Many newspaper editorials and editorial cartoons ridiculed them as impractical idealists.