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Condoleezza Rice: National Security Advisor; Secretary of State
John Bellinger: State Department Legal Advisor
Eliot Cohen: State Department Counselor
Daniel Fried: Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs
Jendayi Frazer: Assistant Secretary for African Affairs
John Bellinger: State Department Legal Advisor
Eliot Cohen: State Department Counselor
Daniel Fried: Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs
Jendayi Frazer: Assistant Secretary for African Affairs
Donald Rumsfeld: Secretary of Defense
Victoria Clarke: Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
Lawrence Di Rita: Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
Richard Myers: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Victoria Clarke: Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
Lawrence Di Rita: Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
Richard Myers: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy; Special Assistant to the President; Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights, and International Operations at the National Security Council; NSC Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs
President, Sinn Féin Party
Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
President of Finland
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Secretary of State
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Deputy Secretary of Treasury
Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget
Assistant to the President for Policy Development
Assistant to the President for Political Affairs
Senate Majority Leader; White House Chief of Staff
White House Chief of Staff; Secretary of the Treasury
White House Chief of Staff; Secretary of State
White House Chief of Staff; Secretary of State
Political and Legal Consultant and Family Friend
Director of Speechwriting
Assistant Attorney General; Deputy Attorney General; Attorney General
U.S. Trade Representative
White House Communications Director, Counselor to the President
Secretary to the Cabinet; Assistant to the President; Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff
Staff Director, U.S. House Committee on the Budget
Deputy Press Secretary to First Lady Barbara Bush; Chief of Staff to George H. W. Bush in his retirement
Attorney General
Legal advisor to the National Security Council
Legal advisor to the State Department
Legal advisor to the State Department
Legal advisor to the National Security Council
Legal advisor to the State Department
Legal advisor to the State Department
Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; National Security Advisor
Secretary of Agriculture
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; member of Council of Economic Advisers
Assistant to the President
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy; Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Chief of Staff
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy; Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Chief of Staff
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy; Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Chief of Staff
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy; Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Chief of Staff
Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Assistant to Staff Secretary; Staff Secretary
Director of Legislative Affairs
Presidential Envoy to Iraq; Chief Executive Administrator of the Coalitional Provisional Authority
Deputy Assistant to the President; Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council; Assistant to the President; Director of the USA Freedom Corps
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Governor of Arkansas (1971-75); U.S. Senator
Political Pollster
Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs
President of Brazil, 1995-2003
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; Secretary of Defense
Deputy Assistant for Domestic Affairs and Policy
President of the United States
General; Chief of Staff of the United States Army; Vice Chief of Staff of the Army; Senior Coalition Commander in Iraq; Director of the Joint Staff; Director of Strategic Plans and Policy
Ambassador to the United Kingdom; Director of United States Information Agency
Secretary of Labor
Secretary of Defense
Secretary of Homeland Security; Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; Assistant U.S. Attorney General for the Criminal Division
Prime Minister of Canada
Christopher: Secretary of State; Talbott: Ambassador-at-Large to the former Soviet Republics (or New Independent States) and Deputy Secretary of State (1994-2001)
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; Secretary of the Interior
United States Ambassador to Syria, Pakistan, and Iraq
White House Counsel
Personal Secretary to the President
Member of Council of Economic Advisers and National Economic Council
White House Counsel
White House Counsel
Governor of Indiana; Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Senator, South Dakota
Deputy Chief of Staff
Assistant to the President; White House Communications Director
Chief of Staff to the Office of Ronald Reagan
United States Global AIDS Coordinator
Majority Staff Director of U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation; Counselor to HHS Secretary, Donna Shalala
Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs and Policy
Trip Coordinator in White House travel office; Assistant Press Secretary; Personal Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture
Special Advisor for Strategic Planning and Institutional Reform
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central Asia; Member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff for East Asia and the Pacific
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central Asia; Member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff for East Asia and the Pacific
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
White House Counsel
White House Counsel
White House Press Secretary
Commander in Chief, United States Central Command (CENTCOM)
Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs
Personal Assistant to the President, Trip Director, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to the Special Envoy to the Americas
Personal Assistant to the President, Trip Director, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to the Special Envoy to the Americas
Domestic Policy Advisor to the Clinton Transition, Founder and CEO of the Democratic Leadership Council
Domestic Policy Advisor to the Clinton Transition, Founder and CEO of the Democratic Leadership Council
National Security Advisor to Vice President Al Gore
Chief of Staff to Vice President Bush
Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy
Secretary of Defense
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Missouri; Minority Leader