Lawrence Ari Fleischer is an American media consultant and political aide who served as the 23rd White House Press Secretary,for President George W. Bush,from January 2001 to July 2003.
Andrew Hill Card Jr. is an American politician and academic administrator who was White House Chief of Staff under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006,as well as head of Bush's White House Iraq Group. Card served as United States Secretary of Transportation under President George H. W. Bush from 1992 to 1993.
Scott McClellan is the former White House Press Secretary (2003–06) for President George W. Bush,he was the 24th person to hold this post. He was also the author of a controversial No. 1 New York Times bestseller about the Bush Administration titled What Happened. He replaced Ari Fleischer as press secretary in July 2003 and served until May 10,2006. McClellan was the longest serving press secretary under George W. Bush.
Valerie Elise Plame is an American writer,spy novelist,and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. As the subject of the 2003 Plame affair,also known as the CIA leak scandal,Plame's identity as a CIA officer was leaked to and subsequently published by Robert Novak of The Washington Post.
Paul Edward Begala is an American political consultant and political commentator,best known as the former advisor to President Bill Clinton.
Mark Barr McClellan is the director of the Robert J Margolis Center for Health Policy and the Margolis Professor of Business,Medicine and Health Policy at Duke University. Formerly,he was a senior fellow and director of the Health Care Innovation and Value Initiative at the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at The Brookings Institution,in Washington,D.C. McClellan served as commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration under President George W. Bush from 2002 through 2004,and subsequently as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from 2004 through 2006.
Sara Taylor Fagen is a technology and data entrepreneur,and former staff member in the administration of President George W. Bush.
Blake Lanier Gottesman served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff to former U.S. President George W. Bush,becoming,at age 28,the youngest member of the Bush senior staff. He previously served in the Bush administration as personal aide and body man for the president from 2001 until 2006. His work for Bush began during Bush's presidential campaign in 1999.
Stephen F. Austin High School,more commonly known as Austin High,is a public high school in Austin,Texas,United States,and part of the Austin Independent School District (AISD). Founded in 1881,it is one of the oldest public high schools west of the Mississippi River,and was the one of the first public high schools in the state of Texas.
The Plame affair erupted in July 2003,when journalist Robert Novak revealed that Valerie Plame worked as covert employee of the Central Intelligence Agency,although the seeds of the scandal had been laid during 2001 and 2002 as the Bush administration investigated allegations that Iraq had purchased Nigerien uranium.
The White House Iraq Group was a working group of the White House set up in August 2002 and tasked with disseminating information supporting the positions of the George W. Bush administration relating to a possible invasion of Iraq,which would subsequently take place in March 2003.
Israel Hernández served as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Trade and Promotion and Director-General of the United States Commercial Service under President George W. Bush. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 3,2005. This U.S. government agency is a global trade office with presence in more than 47 states and 80 countries to protect and advance U.S. trade interestes abroad and provides international business advocacy assistance at the federal,state and local level. In January 2009,Hernandez was appointed to the President's Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN) for a five-year term at the United States Trade Representative's Office in the Executive Office of the President.
Nicolle Wallace is an American television host and author. She is known for her work as the anchor of the MSNBC news and politics program Deadline:White House and a former co-host of the ABC daytime talk show The View. As a political analyst for MSNBC and NBC News,she is a frequent on-air contributor to the programs Today,The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle and Morning Joe.
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.
Rockwall High School is a high school that is part of the Rockwall Independent School District located in Rockwall,Texas.
Timothy Goeglein was special assistant to U.S. President George W. Bush and Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison from 2001 to 2008. In January 2009,Goeglein became the Vice President of External and Government Relations for the Christian Organization Focus on the Family.
What Happened:Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception is an autobiographical bestseller by Scott McClellan,who served as White House Press Secretary from 2003 until 2006 under President George W. Bush. The book was scheduled to be released on June 2,2008;however,excerpts were released to the press a week before publication. The book quickly became a media sensation for its candid,insider's critique of the Bush administration and ran as a leading story on most top news outlets days after the content became public. It was listed as a number-one bestseller by the New York Times and on Amazon.com when it first went on sale.
Karl Christian Rove is an American Republican political consultant,policy advisor,and lobbyist. He was Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff during the George W. Bush administration until his resignation on August 31,2007. He has also headed the Office of Political Affairs,the Office of Public Liaison,and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives.
Tucker Eskew is a political and communications strategist in the United States who served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Media Affairs and Global Communications under President George W. Bush. He joined Senator John McCain's presidential campaign in August 2008 as senior advisor and counselor to Sarah Palin. He was the founder of Eskew Strategy Group,an Alexandria-based communications firm. In 2005,he merged the Eskew Group into a new bipartisan communications firm called Vianovo.
Ashley Estes Kavanaugh is an American public official and former political aide. Since 2004,she has been the wife of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Brett Kavanaugh.
