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...chief, who packed some of his own boxes for the move across West Executive Avenue from his old office, had been on the job just one full day when Rob Portman, the Trade ambassador and a strong communicator, was named to succeed him as director of the Office of Management and Budget. The next morning, press secretary Scott McClellan appeared on the South Lawn with Bush to announce to reporters in a choked voice that he would leave his job in two or three weeks, a few months short of three years at the podium. McClellan, considered "family" because...
...campus.”New members must be chosen unanimously by those already on OTI, and go through a rigorous audition process, says Cassis.According to Cassis, alumni from OTI commonly choose between two disparate occupational paths: entertainment and, surprisingly, education.Among those who have succeeded in the former field are Rob J. Dubbin ’04, who currently writes for Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” and B.J. Averell ’02, who is currently competing on CBS’ reality TV show “The Amazing Race...
...Staffers are coming and going at the White House in what it's irresistible to compare to a spring cleaning. Some will move on for good, long-planned opportunities, as Towey did. Others, it's been hinted, will be asked to leave. On Monday, the trade ambassador, Rob Portman, a well-liked former Republican Congressman from Ohio, moved over to be the President's budget director. Indeed, the new chief of staff, Josh Bolten, has made it clear that anybody who's thinking of leaving should do it soon. The resignation of Scott McClellan on Wednesday - along with expected announcements...
...return to a strong chief isn't the only way in which Bush is dusting off an old playbook. He's also quietly reinstalled the yeomen who peopled his father's domestic policy shops. What do Bolten, the new budget chief Rob Portman, and the economics policy guy Al Hubbard all have in common? They were all up-and-comers somewhere deep in 41's domestic policy operation: Bolten worked on trade, Portman worked on policy in general and Hubbard was deep into deregulation. Susan Schwab, the new trade rep, was a rising star at the Commerce Department in those...
...Rob has been raising twin sons while his wife works, and he feels that Frank disapproves of his lifestyle. Joan also feels her depressed husband has shut her out emotionally, and so she derives a secret plot of her own—learning how to drive...