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Louis McHenry Howe (January 14, 1871 – April 18, 1936) [1] was an American reporter for the New York Herald best known for acting as an early political advisor (1909-1936) to future 32nd President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, served 1933-1945). Born to a wealthy family in Indianapolis, Indiana, Howe was a small, sickly, and asthmatic child.
List of persons holding prominent positions within the Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008.. According to an August 2008 statement by Deputy Campaign Manager Steve Hildebrand, the Obama campaign had "large-scale operations in 22 states, medium operations in many others, and small staffs in only a handful of states," [1] with several thousand paid operatives on the ground between ...
A January 2022 report from Issue One titled "Fair Pay: Why Congress Needs to Invest in Junior Staff" found that one in eight congressional staffers in Washington, DC, were not paid a living wage. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] The report showed that entry-level staff, in particular, were earning 30 percent less than the national average salary, and ...
After the spoils system was reformed, the position remained a Cabinet post, and it was often given to a new president's campaign manager or other key political supporters, including Arthur Summerfield, W. Marvin Watson, and Larry O'Brien, each of whom played important roles organizing the campaigns of presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John F ...
The District of Columbia Office of Campaign Finance (OCF) exists as an agency inside the DC Board of Elections and Ethics. The OCF monitors the actions of political campaigns, appointed officials and elected officials within the District of Columbia, in the United States. Areas of concern include: campaign finance, conflict of interest ...
Richard Nixon's first chief of staff, H. R. Haldeman, garnered a reputation in Washington for the iron hand he wielded in the position. Referring to himself as "the president's son-of-a-bitch", he was a rigid gatekeeper who would frequently meet with administration officials in place of the president, and then report to Nixon on the officials ...
Patrick Kennedy, who has served as the co-chair for Jack Evans' 2016 campaign, announced on April 8, 2019, that he would run in the Democratic primary against Evans with neighborhood commissioner David Bender as his campaign manager. [19]
She attended Visitation Academy of St. Louis, a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic high school, and graduated in 2003. She was a field representative for Matt Blunt's 2004 campaign for Governor of Missouri. [6] [7] She also worked as an administrative assistant for the consulting firm Ashcroft Group. [7]