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Director of Edward M. Kennedy’s Boston office
Hendrik Hertzberg: Speechwriter
Christopher Matthews: Speechwriter
Achsah Nesmith: Speechwriter
Gordon Stewart: Speechwriter
Christopher Matthews: Speechwriter
Achsah Nesmith: Speechwriter
Gordon Stewart: Speechwriter
Secretary of Education
Margaret Spellings: Director of the Domestic Policy Council; Secretary of Education
Holly Kuzmich: Staffer on Domestic Policy Council; Deputy Chief of Staff and Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Affairs at the U.S. Department of Education
Holly Kuzmich: Staffer on Domestic Policy Council; Deputy Chief of Staff and Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Affairs at the U.S. Department of Education
Chief Education Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources
Campaign Advisor
Director of Policy Planning (State Department); Deputy National Security Advisor
Deputy Secretary of State
Deputy Secretary of State
Assistant to the president and White House staff secretary
Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury
Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury
Staff Director, Senate National Science Foundation Subcommittee; Legislative Correspondent to Senator Kennedy
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Assistant Secretary for Communications and Outreach at the U.S. Department of Education; Assistant to the President for Communications
Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
White House Chief of Staff
White House Chief of Staff
Staffer for Edward Kennedy
Staffer for Edward Kennedy
Deputy Chief of Staff
Speechwriter
Ambassador-at-Large to the former Soviet Republics (or New Independent States); Deputy Secretary of State
Civil Rights Attorney; General Counsel, US Commission on Civil Rights
Civil Rights Attorney; General Counsel, US Commission on Civil Rights
Family friend; Massachusetts politics
Personal Advisor; Chief Campaign Scheduler; Advisor to First Lady Hillary Clinton
Attorney General
Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
Deputy National Security Advisor 2003–04; Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor 2004–08
Campaign aide
Attorney; Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School
Senator, California
Senator, California; friend
Director, Office of Presidential Personnel
Archbishop, Nobel Peace Prize winner
Assistant to the President and Director of Presidential Personnel; Director of the Voice of America
Special Assistant to the Attorney General; Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative to United Nations
Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative to United Nations & other positions
Foreign Policy Adviser to Edward Kennedy; Founder of US-Ireland Alliance
Soviet Refusenik
Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff to the First Lady; Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady
White House Counsel
Senator, Virgina
Transition Director
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-CA)
Senior national security advisor to Senator Kennedy
Senior national security advisor to Senator Kennedy
FBI Director; Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director for Speechwriting; Deputy Assistant to the President and Head of White House Office of Strategic Initiatives
Staffer for Edward Kennedy
Senator, Connecticut; Governor, Connecticut
Secretary of Defense
Secretary of the Army; Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Assistant to the President for Public Liaison
Director, United States Information Agency
Chief Counsel for Senator Philip Hart on the Judiciary Committee
Member of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s Judiciary Committee Staff
Member of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s Judiciary Committee Staff
Speechwriter; Senior Advisor for Special Projects
Campaign manager for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign
Chairman of the Democratic National Committee
Chairman of the Democratic National Committee
Senator, Pennsylvania; CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps)
Director of Central Intelligence
Secretary of Agriculture; Chairman of the Republican National Committee; National Policy Advisor
Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General
Professor of Government, University of Virginia
Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission; Counselor of the U.S. Department of State
Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission; Counselor of the U.S. Department of State
Director of the Domestic Policy Council