The White House chief of staff is the head of the Executive Office of the President of the United States,a cabinet position in the federal government of the United States.
Hofstra University is a private university in Hempstead,New York.
William Michael Daley is an American lawyer,politician and former banker. He served as White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama,from January 2011 to January 2012. He also served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce,from 1997 to 2000,under President Bill Clinton. He has also served on the executive committee of JPMorgan Chase &Co. Daley was a candidate for Governor of Illinois in the 2014 gubernatorial election,until dropping out of the race on September 16,2013. He ran in the 2019 Chicago mayoral election but came in third in the first-round voting,and did not advance to the runoff. He served as the Vice Chairman of BNY Mellon from June through October 2019. Since November 13,2019,Daley has served as the Vice Chairman of Public Affairs for Wells Fargo.
David M. Axelrod is an American political consultant,analyst,and former White House official. He is best known for being the chief strategist for Barack Obama's presidential campaigns. After Obama's election,Axelrod was appointed as Senior Advisor to the President. He left the position in early 2011 and became the Senior Strategist for Obama's successful re-election campaign in 2012. Axelrod wrote for the Chicago Tribune,and joined CNN as Senior Political Commentator in 2015. Until recently,Axelrod served as the director of the non-partisan University of Chicago Institute of Politics. His memoir is titled Believer:My Forty Years in Politics.
In the United States 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries,the total number of delegates was 4050. Delegates required for nomination were 2118.
The Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College,is an American Bar Association-approved private law school in Portland,Oregon.
Counselor to the President is a title used by high-ranking political advisors to the president of the United States and senior members of the White House Office.
Stephanie Cutter is an American political consultant. She served as an advisor to President Barack Obama during his first presidential term,and was deputy campaign manager for his 2012 re-election campaign. She previously worked in campaign and communications roles for other prominent Democrats including Ted Kennedy,John Kerry,and Michelle Obama. The New York Times described her as "a popular but polarizing face of (Obama's) campaign",and a "soldier who says the things the candidate can’t say."
Aquatic science is the study of the various bodies of water that make up our planet including oceanic and freshwater environments. Aquatic scientists study the movement of water,the chemistry of water,aquatic organisms,aquatic ecosystems,the movement of materials in and out of aquatic ecosystems,and the use of water by humans,among other things. Aquatic scientists examine current processes as well as historic processes,and the water bodies that they study can range from tiny areas measured in millimeters to full oceans. Moreover,aquatic scientists work in Interdisciplinary groups. For example,a physical oceanographer might work with a biological oceanographer to understand how physical processes,such as tropical cyclones or rip currents,affect organisms in the Atlantic Ocean. Chemists and biologists,on the other hand,might work together to see how the chemical makeup of a certain body of water affects the plants and animals that reside there. Aquatic scientists can work to tackle global problems such as global oceanic change and local problems,such as trying to understand why a drinking water supply in a certain area is polluted.
The presidential transition of Barack Obama began when he won the United States presidential election on November 4,2008,and became the president-elect. Obama was formally elected by the Electoral College on December 15,2008. The results were certified by a joint session of Congress on January 8,2009,and the transition ended when Obama was inaugurated at noon EST on January 20,2009.
Christopher P. Lu is a Chinese American political advisor who serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for Management and Reform. He is also an alternative representative to the United Nations General Assembly during his tenure as Representative for Management and Reform. In the administration of United States President Barack Obama,Lu served as the United States Deputy Secretary of Labor from 2014 to 2017,the White House Cabinet Secretary and Assistant to the President from 2009 to 2013,and the co-chair of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Lu graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and from Harvard Law School,where he was a classmate of Obama's.
Jim Messina is an American political adviser who was the White House deputy chief of staff for operations under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2011 and served as the campaign manager for Obama's successful 2012 re-election campaign. His "innovative fusion of technology and politics led Google chairman Eric Schmidt to call the 2012 race 'the best-run campaign ever'". He is the CEO of the Messina Group.
Jackie Norris is a political aide,educator and corporate strategist in the United States. She served as the assistant to President Barack Obama and Chief of Staff to First Lady Michelle Obama. Jackie is the current President and Owner of SPPG in West Des Moines,Iowa. She previously served as the CEO and president of Goodwill of Central Iowa.
Robert Lee Nabors II was the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs from 2014 to 2016. He previously served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and several other senior roles in the Obama White House.
Julian Smith is an American author and journalist. He wrote Crossing the Heart of Africa,published in 2010 by Harper Perennial,and co-authored Smokejumper:A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters,published in 2015 by William Morrow. Smith and David Wolman are also co-authors of Aloha Rodeo:Three Hawaiian Cowboys,the World's Greatest Rodeo,and a Hidden History of the American West,coming May 28,2019 from William Morrow.
Adam Julian Parkhomenko is an American political strategist and organizer who served in 2016 as the national field director for the Democratic National Committee. He was the co-founder and executive director of Ready for Hillary,a super PAC established to persuade Hillary Clinton to run for the presidency of the United States in 2016. In the 2017 party election,Parkhomenko was a candidate for vice chair of the Democratic National Committee.
Maju Varghese is an American attorney and political advisor who served as director of the White House Military Office in the Biden administration. He assumed office on March 9,2021 and left office January 21,2022.
