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Chief Education Advisor to the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources
Speechwriter, Advisor to Edward and Robert Kennedy
Speechwriter, Advisor to Edward and Robert Kennedy
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Special Assistant to the President; National Security Council Staff’s Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs
Stephen Hadley: Deputy National Security Advisor; National Security Advisor
Judy Ansley: Senior Director for Europe; Deputy National Security Advisor for Regional Programs
J.D. Crouch: Deputy National Security Advisor
Judy Ansley: Senior Director for Europe; Deputy National Security Advisor for Regional Programs
J.D. Crouch: Deputy National Security Advisor
Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs
Friend; Campaign Manager
Campaign Advisor
Assistant to the President for Policy Development; Deputy OMB Director
Activists; Parents of Fallen Soldier (PFC. John Hart)
Education staff director for the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
President of Czechoslovakia; President of the Czech Republic
Director of the National Security Agency; Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence; Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Journalist, The Boston Globe
Deputy Director of the National Economic Council; Director of the National Economic Council
Counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee
John Hilley: Director of Legislative Affairs; Lawrence Stein: Director of Legislative Affairs
United States Trade Representative
Personal friend of Senator Ted Kennedy
Irish Social Democratic and Labour Party President
Foreign Policy Adviser to Edward Kennedy
White House Physician
Chairman, Massachusetts Democratic Party
Director, Office of Presidential Personnel
Jennings: Deputy Assistant to the President for Health Policy; Lambrew: associate director at the Office of Management and Budget; senior health analyst at the National Economic Council
President, Center on Education Policy
Commander of the Pacific Fleet; Vice Chairman and Acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel; Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
EMK staffer; healthcare specialist
EMK staffer; healthcare specialist
Advisor; White House Chief of Staff
Chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Stability; Advisor to the President on Inflation
Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to Edward Kennedy
Senior Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore
U.S. Trade Representative; Secretary of Commerce
Senator, Kansas
Soviet Refuseniks
Attorney General
Deputy in the Presidential Personnel Office
Personal Assistant to the President
Wife of Senator Kennedy, Attorney, Democratic activist
Secretary of State; Senator, Massachusetts; 2004 Democratic Presidential Nominee
Staffer for Orrin Hatch; Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration
Chief Speechwriter
Special Assistant to the President (NSC); Special Envoy to Afghanistan; United States Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations
Deputy Assistant to the President for Public Liaison; Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs
President of South Korea
Advisor; Close Friend to President Carter
Special Assistant to Edward Kennedy; DNC Chairman; Senator, Massachusetts
Special Assistant to Edward Kennedy; DNC Chairman; Senator, Massachusetts
Secretary of Commerce
Deputy Director for the Presidential Transition; Chairman of Clinton-Gore 1996 Reelection Committee
Education Advisor to George W. Bush
Medical Researcher
Personal Aide to the President
Chief Speechwriter
Staffer for Edward Kennedy
National Security Advisor
National Security Advisor
Campaign Advisor; Office of Management and Budget Director
Senator, Nevada
Senator, Vermont
General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB); Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy ; Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea
Columnist, The New York Times