Word: roberts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Gibbs accompanied the Obama family on their summer vacation to Hawaii, where the couple volunteered to babysit the Gibbs' son so that Robert and his wife could have a night...
...choosing former campaign communications director Robert Gibbs as his new White House Press Secretary, Barack Obama tapped an ultra-loyalist who has spent the past few years wedded to the candidate's side. Very few staffers are as close to Obama, so much so that campaign spokeswoman Linda Douglass has referred to Gibbs as "the Barack Whisperer." (Read "Inside Obama's Idea Factory in Washington...
...Born in Auburn, Alabama to two university librarians. His mother Nancy Gibbs would take young Robert along with her while she worked with the League of Women Voters...
...Robert is the guy I want in the foxhole with me during incoming fire...If I'm wrong, he challenges me. He's not intimidated by me."- Barack Obama, on Gibbs' "tell it like it is" relationship with the president-elect (Wall Street Journal...
...hinterland in a lightning advance and seizes power is a familiar one, from Nkunda's native Democratic Republic of Congo to the Comoros Islands. Sometimes, as with Paul Kagame in Rwanda or with Yoweri Museveni in Uganda, the new leaders are an improvement. But in other cases, as with Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe or Laurent Kabila, the assassinated father of the current Congolese president, they quickly impose the autocracy and corruption they were initially fighting...