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Senate Majority Leader; Senator, South Dakota
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
Assistant to the President for Science and Technology; Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Chair of the Republican National Committee; Chair of the Virginia Republican Party; Counselor to the President
Cofounder, Goddard-Claussen
White House Counsel; Attorney General
Personal Assistant to the President
General counsel of the Department of Defense; Deputy Attorney General
White House Counsel
Media Consultant
Senator, New Hampshire
Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs
Special Assistant to the President; National Security Council Staff’s Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs
Stephen Hadley: Deputy National Security Advisor; National Security Advisor
Judy Ansley: Senior Director for Europe; Deputy National Security Advisor for Regional Programs
J.D. Crouch: Deputy National Security Advisor
Judy Ansley: Senior Director for Europe; Deputy National Security Advisor for Regional Programs
J.D. Crouch: Deputy National Security Advisor
Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs
Campaign Advisor
Assistant to the President for Policy Development; Deputy OMB Director
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
President of Czechoslovakia; President of the Czech Republic
Director of the National Security Agency; Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence; Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Journalist, The Boston Globe
Deputy Director of the National Economic Council; Director of the National Economic Council
Counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee
John Hilley: Director of Legislative Affairs; Lawrence Stein: Director of Legislative Affairs
United States Trade Representative
Personal friend of Senator Ted Kennedy
Irish Social Democratic and Labour Party President
Foreign Policy Adviser to Edward Kennedy
White House Physician
Chairman, Massachusetts Democratic Party
Director, Office of Presidential Personnel
Jennings: Deputy Assistant to the President for Health Policy; Lambrew: associate director at the Office of Management and Budget; senior health analyst at the National Economic Council
Senior healthcare advisor under Bill Clinton
President, Center on Education Policy
Commander of the Pacific Fleet; Vice Chairman and Acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel; Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
EMK staffer; healthcare specialist
EMK staffer; healthcare specialist
Advisor; White House Chief of Staff
Chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Stability; Advisor to the President on Inflation
Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to Edward Kennedy
Senior Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore
U.S. Trade Representative; Secretary of Commerce
Senator, Kansas
Soviet Refuseniks
Attorney General
Deputy in the Presidential Personnel Office
Personal Assistant to the President
Wife of Senator Kennedy, Attorney, Democratic activist
Secretary of State; Senator, Massachusetts; 2004 Democratic Presidential Nominee
Staffer for Orrin Hatch; Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration
Chief Speechwriter
Special Assistant to the President (NSC); Special Envoy to Afghanistan; United States Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations
Deputy Assistant to the President for Public Liaison; Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs
President of South Korea
Advisor; Close Friend to President Carter