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PICTURES: The White House Personnel Shuffle

Updated: November 9, 2012 | 4:39 p.m.
January 16, 2011 | 9:00 a.m.

President Barack Obama, flanked by outgoing White House Chief of Staff William Daley, right, and his replacement, current Budget Director Jack Lew, makes, the changes announcement, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012, in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington. . (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

A look at who has left the White House over the past few years, the people who have stepped in, and the familiar faces asked to fill new roles.

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<p>CIA Director David Petraeus <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/cia-director-david-petraeus-resigns-citing-extra-marital-affair-20121109" target="_blank">announced his resignation on Nov. 9, 2012, because of an extramarital affair. Deputy CIA Director Mike Morrell was made acting director. </p> - Chet Susslin

<p>White House Chief of Staff William Daley is stepping down to be replaced by budget director Jack Lew, the White House confirmed Monday.</p> - PHOTO: Alex Wong/Getty Images

<p>President Obama points out someone in the audience to his personal aide Reggie Love at Asheville Regional Airport in Fletcher, N.C., Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. Love, the former Duke basketball and football star left the White House last year.</p> - AP Photo/Susan Walsh

<p>Alan Krueger is being tapped to replace Austan Goolsbee as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the White House announced on August 29. Krueger, now of Princeton University, served as assistant Treasury secretary for economic policy during the first two years of the Obama administration. During that time, he worked on analysis for tax incentives for employers, the "cash for clunkers" initiative, and Build America taxable municipal bonds.</p> - PHOTO: DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY

<p>Matthew Olsen will be nominated as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, President Obama announced on July 1. Olsen is currently the general counsel for the National Security Agency and principal legal adviser to the NSA director.</p> - PHOTO: JOHN THYS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

<p>Vivek Kundra, the first-ever federal chief information officer, is planning to leave the White House in August after two and a half years with the administration. He is taking a position at Harvard University that has not yet been disclosed.</p>

<p>The White House announced on June 6 that Austan Goolsbee, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, would be stepping down in order to return to his teaching position as an economic professor at the University of Chicago, a position he held for 14 years prior to joining the Obama administration.</p> - PHOTO: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images

<p>Principal Deputy Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler will take over as the administration’s top lawyer, the White House announced June 2. Ruemmler is taking over for Bob Bauer, who will resign at the end of June to focus on Obama’s reelection bid. Before joining the administration, Ruemmler worked for Latham & Watkins and spent six years as a federal prosecutor, including a co-lead role in the prosecution of former Enron executives.</p> - PHOTO: Dave Einsel/Getty Images

<p>The White House announced May 31 that President Obama would nominate businessman John Bryson as secretary of the Department of Commerce, replacing Gary Locke. If confirmed, he would take over the department at a time of considerable ferment.</p> - PHOTO: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images

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President Obama plans to nominate CIA Director Leon Panetta to head the Pentagon. The administration had lobbied Robert Gates to stay on as Defense secretary through the end of the summer, but Gates told the president in late April that he was ready to go.</p> - PHOTO: TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images

<p>President Obama plans to nominate Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, to lead the CIA. A White House official said that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a key backer of Petraeus, had been privately lobbied to support the nomination. Petraeus would replace Leon Panetta, who has been nominated to be the next Defense secretary. </p> - PHOTO: Richard A. Bloom

<p>Secretary of State of Hillary Clinton told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on March 16 that she is not interested in serving a second term as secretary of state, nor as secretary of defense, nor does she plan to run for the presidency again.</p> - PHOTO: Richard A. Bloom

<p>President Obama nominated Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to replace Jon Huntsman as U.S. ambassador to China on March 9. The 61-year-old Locke--who served two terms as governor of Washington--would be the first Chinese-American to hold the position.</p> - PHOTO: Richard A. Bloom

<p>President Obama named Jay Carney as his new press secretary. Carney, who had served as press secretary for Vice President Joe Biden, is replacing Robert Gibbs, who announced in January that he would step down. Carney, a former journalist for Time magazine, has had the sometimes unenviable job of keeping Biden on message and explaining away the times when his boss would step out of line. </p> - Richard A. Bloom

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President Obama picked General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt to be chairman of the new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. The creation of the new panel coincides with the early-February dissolution of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, chaired by Paul Volcker. PERAB was tasked principally with fixing the financial markets and restoring the American economy to equilibrium. Immelt was one of 17 members of the board. </p> - PHOTO: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images

<p>Rob Nabors is the new White House legislative affairs director, replacing Phil Schiliro, who stepped down in February. Nabors had been acting deputy director at the Office of Management and Budget. He also worked as counselor to the OMB director; senior adviser to the White House chief of staff; and OMB deputy director. Schiliro will remain at the White House as a senior adviser to President Obama. </p> - PHOTO: Aude Guerrucci/Getty Images

<p>Gene Sperling became the new director of the National Economic Council, reprising a role he played during the boom years of the Clinton administration. Sperling is currently counsel to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Referring to Sperling, Obama said: 'Few people bring the level of intelligence and sheer work ethic that Gene brings to every assignment he’s ever taken, and few do so with such decency and integrity.' Sperling is replacing Larry Summers, who announced his plans to step down from the NEC late last year. Along with Sperling, Obama announced that economic aid Jason Furman would be promoted to principal deputy director of the NEC and assistant to Obama for economic policy. Obama also announced the nomination of University of Maryland professor Katharine Abraham to the Council of Economic Advisers. She will fill the seat previously held by Austan Goolsbee, who was elevated to chairman of the CEA. Abraham’s nomination requires Senate confirmation.</p> - PHOTO: Liz Lynch

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In November 2010 Jacob Lew was confirmed as Director of the Office of Management and Budget, a position he previously held from 1998 to 2001. Lew replaced Peter Orzag who stepped down in July of 2010. </p> - PHOTO: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

<p>David Plouffe, who served as campaign manager for President Obama's 2008 run, will replace senior adviser David Axelrod in the White House. Axelrod told National Journal that he plans to leave Washington in the spring and return to Chicago to work on Obama’s reelection campaign. Plouffe currently serves as a senior advisor for Chicago-based AKPD, the consulting group founded by Axelrod. </p> - PHOTO: Francois Durand/Getty Images

<p>Thomas Donilon, former deputy national security adviser, replaced Jim Jones as national security adviser in October 2010. Donilon joined the White House as a member of the transition team for State Department review. Before that Donilon was one of the staffers who prepped candidate Obama for his debates with John McCain and was a senior aide to Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. Denis McDonough was appointed to Donilon’s former post of deputy national security adviser.</p> - PHOTO: Richard A. Bloom

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Austan Goolsbee, a member of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, was promoted to head of the council in September 2010 after the departure of former CEA head Christina Romer. Previously, Goolsbee was an economic adviser to Obama’s 2004 Senate and 2008 presidential campaigns.</p> - PHOTO: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images

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Stuart Levey, Treasury's under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, will step down and be replaced by his deputy, David Cohen(bottom right). Levey was confirmed by the Senate on July 21, 2004, and was the first person to hold his position. White House officials told The Wall Street Journal that Levey’s departure “doesn’t signal a shift in U.S. policy or a slackening of Washington’s financial campaigns against Tehran, Pyongyang, and international terrorist groups.” </p> - PHOTO: Department of the Treasury

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