Joseph Isadore Lieberman was an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. A former member of the Democratic Party,he was its nominee for vice president of the United States in the 2000 U.S. presidential election. During his final term in office,he was officially listed as an independent Democrat and caucused with and chaired committees for the Democratic Party.
Mary Joe Matalin is an American political consultant well known for her work with the Republican Party. She has served under President Ronald Reagan,was campaign director for George H. W. Bush,was an assistant to President George W. Bush,and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney until 2003. Matalin has been chief editor of Threshold Editions,a conservative publishing imprint at Simon &Schuster,since March 2005. She is married to Democratic political consultant James Carville. She appears in the award-winning documentary film Boogie Man:The Lee Atwater Story and also played herself,opposite her husband,James Carville,John Slattery,and Mary McCormack in the short lived HBO series K Street.
The following is a timeline of events during the 2004 U.S. presidential election:
The 2000 Democratic National Convention was a quadrennial presidential nominating convention for the Democratic Party. The convention nominated Vice President Al Gore for president and Senator Joe Lieberman from Connecticut for vice president. The convention was held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles,California from August 14 to August 17,2000. Gore accepted the presidential nomination on August 17,the final night of the convention.
Stuart W. Bowen Jr.,is an American lawyer who served as the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) from October 2004 to October 2013. He previously served as the Inspector General for the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA-IG),a position to which he was appointed in January 2004. Mr. Bowen's mission includes ensuring effective oversight of the $63 billion appropriated for Iraq's relief and reconstruction.
The White House deputy chief of staff is officially the top aide to the White House chief of staff,who is the senior aide to the president of the United States. The deputy chief of staff usually has an office in the West Wing and is responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the White House bureaucracy,as well as such other duties as the chief of staff assigns to them. In all recent administrations,there have been multiple deputy chiefs with different duties.
David Spears Addington is an American lawyer who was legal counsel (2001–2005) and chief of staff (2005–2009) to Vice President Dick Cheney. He was the vice president of domestic and economic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation from 2010 to 2016.
Benjamin Langer Ginsberg is an American lawyer. He is most well known for his work representing the Republican Party and its political campaigns,candidates,members of Congress and state legislatures and governors,as well as corporations,trade associations,businesses,and individuals participating in the political process.
Edward Miner Lamont Jr. is an American businessman and politician serving since January 2019 as the 89th governor of Connecticut. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as a Greenwich selectman from 1987 to 1989 and was the party's nominee for the United States Senate in 2006,losing to incumbent Joe Lieberman.
United States v. Libby was the federal trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby,a former high-ranking official in the George W. Bush administration,for interfering with special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's criminal investigation of the Plame affair.
The 2006 United States Senate election in Connecticut was held November 7,2006. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman won his fourth and final term in the Senate,under the Connecticut for Lieberman party banner.
Richard Bruce Cheney is an American politician and businessman who served as the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009 under President George W. Bush. Often cited as the most powerful vice president in American history,Cheney previously served as White House Chief of Staff for President Gerald Ford,the U.S. representative for Wyoming's at-large congressional district from 1979 to 1989,and as the 17th United States secretary of defense in the administration of President George H. W. Bush. He is the oldest living former U.S. vice president,following the death of Walter Mondale in 2021.
Alan Schlesinger is an American attorney,entrepreneur,and Republican politician. He has previously served as the mayor of Derby,Connecticut from 1994 to 1998 and as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1981 to 1993. He campaigned unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination in Connecticut's 5th congressional district in 1984,1990,and 1998.
Steven A. Elmendorf is a lobbyist in Washington,D.C.,who was a senior advisor to House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt for 12 years,serving as his chief of staff after 1997. Elmendorf was also deputy campaign manager for U.S. Senator John Kerry,the 2004 Democratic nominee for president.
Irve Lewis "Scooter" Libby is an American lawyer and former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney known for his high-profile indictment and clemency.
Patrick F. Philbin is an American lawyer who served as Deputy Counsel to the President and Deputy Assistant to the President in the Office of White House Counsel in the Donald J. Trump administration. He previously served in the Department of Justice during the George W. Bush administration.
Joe Lieberman was an American politician,having served as a United States Senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. A former member of the Democratic Party,he was the party's nominee for Vice President in the 2000 election. Later on,he became an Independent.
The United States presidential election debates were held during the 2000 presidential election. Three debates were held between Republican candidate,Texas Governor George W. Bush and Democratic incumbent Vice President Al Gore,the major candidates. One debate was held with their vice presidential running mates,Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman. All four debates were sponsored by the non-profit Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD),which has organized presidential debates since its establishment in 1987.
The presidential transition of George W. Bush took place following the 2000 United States presidential election. It started after Bush was declared the victor of the election on December 12,2000,when the Bush v. Gore decision by the Supreme Court halted the election recount in Florida,making Bush the victor in that state. The decision delivered him the state's 25 electoral votes,thus giving him a total of 271 electoral votes. This was one more vote than the 270 needed to win the presidency outright,making him president-elect.
