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Barack Obama

White House

President

202-456-1414

At Obama's White House, Winston Churchill was sent into retirement, the spotlights were green for the East Room reception on St. Patrick's Day, and the ...

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Rahm Emanuel

White House

Chief of Staff

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Emanuel left a House leadership post--and the dream of becoming the first Jewish speaker--to become Obama's staff chief. His oft-caricatured style as the abrasive, hard-charging ...

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Adolfo Carrion

White House

Director, White House Office of Urban Affairs

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Carrion, a former Bronx Borough president and city council member, came in February to a newly created position to coordinate urban issues. He has been ...

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Mona Sutphen

White House

Deputy Chief of Staff

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Sutphen has five rules for success, and the fifth one is, "Follow the people, not the job description." That may be what led her to ...

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Cassandra Butts

White House

Deputy White House Counsel

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Butts was a force in Washington well before Barack Obama, her Harvard Law School friend, came to the Senate, and she was well positioned to ...

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Melody Barnes

White House

Director of the Domestic Policy Council

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There's a quote frozen in glass on Barnes's West Wing desk that she uses for motivation: "It is this belief in a power larger than ...

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Christopher Lu

White House

Cabinet secretary

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Few people have better connections to Obama than Lu, 43. They were classmates at Harvard Law School, and they worked (and both met their wives) ...

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Norman Eisen

White House

Special Counsel, ethics and Government Reform

202-456-1414

Eisen left a million-dollar law partnership at Washington-based Zuckerman Spaeder to join the White House because, he says, "I couldn't give up the chance to ...

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Shawn Maher

White House

Deputy Director of the Office of Legislative Affairs for the Senate

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Congress is about relationships, and Maher, 49, has developed some pretty strong ones on Capitol Hill over the years. "After nearly 14 years of working ...

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Dan Turton

White House

Deputy Director of the Office of Legislative Affairs for the House

202-456-6620

Serving as Obama's chief House liaison has been exhilarating and exhausting for Turton. "From the minute I walk in every day, I work on adrenaline," ...

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