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Franklin Pierce University
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Franklin Pierce University is a small, private, non-profit, regionally accredited university in rural Rindge, New Hampshire, in the United States. It was founded as Franklin Pierce College in 1962, combining a liberal arts foundation with coursework for professional preparation, the school gained university status in 2007 and is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. In 2009, Franklin Pierce University was ranked on Forbes List of Americas Top Colleges, the university has an enrollment of 1,399 students and overlooks Pearly Pond, just a few miles from Mount Monadnock. The campus covers approximately 1,200 acres, kim Mooney is the current president of Franklin Pierce University, replacing outgoing president Andrew Card in August 2016. The university also operates the College of Graduate and Professional Studies with campuses in Manchester, Portsmouth, and Lebanon, New Hampshire, as well as Goodyear, Arizona. The school was founded by Frank S. DiPietro in 1962 as Franklin Pierce College, named after Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States, the school opened its doors to its first set of students in the winter of 1963. They began with just under 100 students and six full-time professors, the campus consisted of four older buildings known as the Manor, Rindge Hall, The White House, and Ravencroft Theatre. Many classes were conducted in downtown Rindge, also buildings there were used as residence halls. In the winter of 1964, Crestview Hall was built, and that building was used for both dorms and classrooms, enabling the college to move completely to its current location. In the winter of 1965, Monadnock Hall was built for classrooms on the ground floor. Later that year Edgewood was built, at that time the cafeteria moved from the Manor to the ground floor with residence halls on the two upper floors. Also that year, the DiGregorio building was built and housed a post office along with student lounges, a snack bar, still, despite the additional buildings, the campus remained overcrowded as the student body grew to over 500 students. The school still lacked a library, so in 1967 a resource center was built, the library moved from one of the classroom/dorm buildings to the resource center along with academic and administrative offices. Eventually, the production center, radio station, computer labs. In the fall of 1968, Granite Hall opened as a dormitory with health services in the basement, also that year, the Fieldhouse was built to accommodate sports programs. In 1969, New Hampshire Hall opened for more dormitories with the department in the basement. Mt. Washington Hall was built as an extension to New Hampshire in 1969, in 1971, Marcucella Hall was built for classrooms, enabling most of the classrooms in Crestview and Monadnock to relocate there. The Manor remained a student center as Rindge Hall became financial aid, Franklin Pierce held its first graduation in 1967 and became accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges in 1968
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Bush School of Government and Public Service
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The Bush School of Government and Public Service is a graduate college of Texas A&M University. The school is named in honor of former US President George H. W. Bush, the Bush School is located adjacent to the George Bush Presidential Library on the West Campus of Texas A&M University. According to U. S. News & World Report, The Bush School ranks in the top 13 percent of public programs and is ranked 33rd overall among public affairs graduate schools in the United States. The Master in International Affairs degree is one of just 33 member programs recognized by the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, in 2015, it was ranked as one of the top 25 international relations graduate programs in the world by Foreign Policy. The Master of Public Service and Administration degree is accredited by the National Association of Public Affairs. The Bush School prides itself on offering financial aid to 100% of its full-time students, the George Bush Presidential Library was established in 1997 on 90 acres of land donated by Texas A&M at the western edge of the campus. At that time, The George Bush School of Government and Public Service was established to coincide with the opening of the library, while the school was officially launched in 1997, it became an independent college within the university in 2000. The school has established three research institutes on campus, to conduct public policy-oriented research to assist domestic and global economies, the Bush School was named in honor of former US President George H. W. Bush. He has been involved in providing direction in the organization by helping bring noted professors, as well as individuals from the public, students also have the option to create their own specialized concentration within either track. Master of International Affairs The Master of International Affairs offers the option to pursue the National Security and Diplomacy or the International Development and Economic Policy track. The degree program offers eight concentrations, including US diplomacy, defense policy, homeland security, international economics and development, international politics, capstone clients have included the U. S. Students are encouraged to pursue internships or language immersions during the summer between their first and second year of study, in the past, students have interned at such organizations as USAID, Cotton Council International, Deutsche Welle, the U. S. Mission the United Nations, the Atlantic Council, CNN, the U. S. State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U. S. Senate, and many others. Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy The Institute for Science, Technology, as The Bush Schools academic programs continued to grow, the educational portion of CPLS transitioned to an institute in fall 2000. The current director of ISTPP is Dr. Kent Portney, the Institute focuses on assessing, addressing, and presenting policy-oriented research on international affairs. They support the school through hosting educational conferences and providing opportunities for researchers to access the Bush Library, the current director of the Scowcroft Institute is Andrew Natsios, former USAID director. The organization performs research to offer solutions in policy and economic challenges prevalent both domestically and throughout the world, the current director of the Mosbacher Institute is Dr. Lori Taylor
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Ryan Crocker
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Ryan Clark Crocker is a former career ambassador within the United States Foreign Service and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has served as United States Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait, in January 2010, he became Dean of Texas A&M Universitys George Bush School of Government and Public Service. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell called Crocker one of our very best foreign service officers, President George W. Bush called him Americas Lawrence of Arabia and noted that General David Petraeus had said that it was a great honor for me to be his military wingman. Crocker was born in Spokane, Washington, growing up, he had family members in the U. S. Air Force and in Turkey. He lived in Morocco, Canada and Turkey, Crocker attended University College Dublin and Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where he received a B. A. in English literature in 1971 and was a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. After Persian language training, he was assigned to the American Consulate in Khorramshahr, Iran and he completed the 20-month program at the Foreign Service Institutes Arabic School in Tunis in June 1978. Crocker was then assigned as chief of the section at the U. S. Crocker served in Beirut, Lebanon, as chief of the section from 1981 to 1984. On September 18,1982, he reported back to the Department of State about the Sabra and he also survived the 1983 United States Embassy bombing. He spent the 1984–85 academic year at Princeton University under State Department auspices and he served as deputy director of the Office of Israel and Arab–Israeli affairs from 1985 to 1987 and was political counselor at the American Embassy in Cairo from 1987 to 1990. Following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, Crocker became the Director of the Iraq-Kuwait Task Force, in 1998, as the Ambassador to Syria, his residence was plundered by an angry mob. In the days after the 9/11 attacks, Crocker and other senior U. S. State Department officials flew to Geneva to meet secretly with representatives of the government of Iran. For several months, Crocker and his Iranian counterparts cooperated on capturing Al Qaeda operatives in the region and these meetings stopped after the Axis of Evil speech hardened Iranian attitudes toward cooperating with the U. S. In January 2002, he was appointed interim chargé daffaires to the new government of Afghanistan, in September 2004, President Bush conferred on him the diplomatic rank of Career Ambassador, the highest rank in the Foreign Service, equivalent to a four-star officer in the military. The appointment was confirmed by the United States Senate by unanimous consent on June 30,2011, in July 2012 he stepped down, as announced in May due to unspecified health reasons. On August 14,2012, he was arrested for driving while intoxicated, in November he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of reckless driving. During court proceedings, it was stated that Crocker had been administered two blood alcohol tests after the accident, with the results of.160 and.152 percent both exceeding the limit of.08. Crocker was sentenced to a 30 day suspension of his drivers license, a $1,000 fine, in addition, he was required to make restitution for the damage he caused to the other vehicle involved in the accident
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White House Chief of Staff
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The White House Chief of Staff has traditionally been the highest-ranking employee of the White House. With the creation of the new position of White House Chief Strategist by the Trump administration, the Chief of Staffs position is a modern successor to the earlier role of the presidents private secretary. The role was formalized as the assistant to the president in 1946, the Chief of Staff is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the president, it does not require Senate confirmation. Reince Priebus is the current Chief of Staff, the duties of the White House chief of staff vary greatly from one administration to another, and in fact, there is no legal requirement that the president even fill the position. Because of these duties, the chief of staff has at times been labeled The Gatekeeper. Originally, the duties now performed by the chief of staff belonged to the private secretary and were fulfilled by crucial confidants. Cortelyou, Joseph Tumulty, and Louis McHenry Howe to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, the job of gatekeeper and overseeing the presidents schedule was separately delegated to the appointments secretary, as with FDRs aide Edwin Pa Watson. From 1933 to 1939, as he expanded the scope of the federal governments policies and powers in response to the Great Depression. It was not until 1939, during Franklin D. Roosevelts second term in office, Roosevelt was able to get Congress to approve the creation of the Executive Office of the President, which would report directly to the president. In 1946, in response to the growth of the U. S. governments executive branch. Charged with the affairs of the White House, it was the predecessor to the modern chief of staff. It was in 1953, under Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower, assistant to the president became a rank generally shared by the chief of staff with such senior aides as deputy chiefs of staff, the White House counsel, the White House press secretary, and others. This new system did not catch on immediately and this concentration of power in the Nixon and Ford White House led presidential candidate Jimmy Carter to campaign in 1976 with the promise that he would not appoint a chief of staff. And indeed, for the first two and a years of his presidency, he appointed no one to the post. The average term of service for a White House chief of staff is a little under 2.5 years, john R. Steelman, under Harry S. Truman, was the last chief of staff to serve for an entire presidential administration. Steelman also holds the record for longest-serving chief of staff, most White House chiefs of staff are former politicians, and many continue their political careers in other senior roles. Lyndon Johnsons chief of staff W. Marvin Watson became postmaster general later in LBJs term, richard Nixons Chief of Staff Alexander Haig became secretary of state under Ronald Reagan. Cheney later became a Congressman for Wyoming, secretary of defense under George H. W. Bush and vice president in the George W. Bush administration
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George W. Bush
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George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was also the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000 and he is the eldest son of Barbara and George H. W. Bush. After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, Bush married Laura Welch in 1977 and ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives shortly thereafter. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before defeating Ann Richards in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election and he is the second president to assume the nations highest office after his father, following the lead of John Quincy Adams. He is also a brother of Jeb Bush, a former Governor of Florida who was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2016 presidential election, the September 11 terrorist attacks occurred eight months into Bushs first term as president. Bush responded with what became known as the Bush Doctrine, launching a War on Terror, a military campaign that included the war in Afghanistan in 2001. He also promoted policies on the economy, health care, education, Social Security reform and his tenure included national debates on immigration, Social Security, electronic surveillance, and torture. In the 2004 Presidential race, Bush defeated Democratic Senator John Kerry in another close election. After his re-election, Bush received increasingly heated criticism from across the spectrum for his handling of the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina. Amid this criticism, the Democratic Party regained control of Congress in the 2006 elections, Bush left office in 2009, returning to Texas where he purchased a home in Crawford. He wrote a memoir, Decision Points and his presidential library was opened in 2013. His presidency has been ranked among the worst in historians polls published in the late 2000s and 2010s. George Walker Bush was born on July 6,1946, at Grace-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, as the first child of George Herbert Walker Bush and his wife, the former Barbara Pierce. He was raised in Midland and Houston, Texas, with four siblings, Jeb, Neil, Marvin, another younger sister, Robin, died from leukemia at the age of three in 1953. His grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a U. S and his father, George H. W. Bush, was Ronald Reagans Vice President from 1981 to 1989 and the 41st U. S. President from 1989 to 1993. Bush has English and some German ancestry, along with more distant Dutch, Welsh, Irish, French, Bush attended public schools in Midland, Texas, until the family moved to Houston after he had completed seventh grade. He then spent two years at The Kinkaid School, a school in Houston. Bush attended high school at Phillips Academy, a school in Andover, Massachusetts
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John Podesta
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John David Podesta is a columnist and former chairman of the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. He previously served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, additionally, he was a co-chairman of the Obama-Biden Transition Project. Podesta spent most of his years in Chicago, where he was born. His mother, Mary, was Greek-American, and his father, John David Podesta, Tony Podesta, a lobbyist, is his brother. Podestas father did not graduate high school, but encouraged Podesta to attend college. In 1967, Podesta graduated from Lane Tech High School in Chicago, in 1971, he graduated from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he had served as a volunteer for the presidential candidacy of Eugene McCarthy. He received his J. D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1976 and his political career began in 1972, when he worked for George McGoverns presidential campaign, which lost in 49 states. In 1988, he and his brother Tony co-founded Podesta Associates, Inc. a Washington, D. C. government relations, Podesta served as both an Assistant to the President and as Deputy Chief of Staff. In 1998 he became President Clintons Chief of Staff in the second Clinton Administration, Podesta encouraged Executive Order 12958 which led to efforts to declassify millions of pages from the U. S. diplomatic and national security history. In 2003, Podesta founded the Center for American Progress, a think tank in Washington, D. C. and served as its president. Podesta remained chairman of the board of directors for a time. On the Georgetown faculty, Podestas title is Distinguished Visitor from Practice, from 2002–14, Podesta served as a member of the Constitution Projects bipartisan Liberty and Security Committee. In 2008, he authored The Power of Progress, How Americas Progressives Can Save Our Economy, Our Climate, in 2009, he accompanied former President Bill Clinton to North Korea for negotiations securing the release of two American journalists imprisoned on espionage charges. He can be seen in widely circulated photographs of Clinton meeting with Kim Jong-il. Podesta opposes the use of classification, and in a 2004 speech at Princeton University condemned what he called the U. S. s excessive government secrecy. More than 800 million pages of documents were declassified as part of the program. Podesta is described as an advocate for government disclosure of UFO files. Podesta has supported petitions by some who believe UFOs are alien spacecraft to the government to release files related to the subject, Podesta wrote the forward for a book by Leslie Kean titled UFOs- Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On The Record
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Joshua Bolten
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Joshua Brewster Josh Bolten served as the White House Chief of Staff to U. S. President George W. Bush. Long time Republican Bolten replaced Andrew Card on April 14,2006, Bolten was born to a Jewish family, the son of Analouise and Seymour Bolten. His father worked for the CIA and his mother taught history at George Washington University. He graduated from St. Albans School, and served on the board until 2007. Bolten attended Princeton University, where he studied in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and he graduated with a J. D. from Stanford Law School in 1980 and served as an editor of the law review. Formerly the Director of Office of Management and Budget, Bolten was confirmed by the U. S. Senate to that position in 2003, Bolten was Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy at the White House from 2001 to 2003. Bolten was the second Jewish person appointed as White House Chief of Staff, Bolten was named as White House Chief of Staff to smooth relations with the United States Congress, and to reinvigorate the West Wing staff. He is credited with having assisted the President in recruiting Henry Paulson - the CEO of Goldman Sachs - to serve as Treasury Secretary, Bolten became the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor at Princeton Universitys Woodrow Wilson School in September 2009, teaching classes on the budget and international trade. Joshua Bolten plays bass guitar in a called the Compassionates. In 2015, Bolten married Ann Kelly, joshua Boltens political donations at newsmeat. com Biography in Stanford Law School magazine Who2 profile of Bolten Friends discuss Boltens college experience at dailyprincetonian. com
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United States Secretary of Transportation
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The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation, a member of the Presidents Cabinet, and thirteenth in the Presidential Line of Succession. The post was created with the formation of the Department of Transportation on October 15,1966, johnsons signing of the Department of Transportation Act. The Secretary of Transportation oversees eleven agencies, including the Federal Aviation Administration, the Federal Highway Administration, in April 2008, Mary Peters launched the official blog of the Secretary of Transportation called The Fast Lane. The first Secretary of Transportation was Alan Stephenson Boyd, nominated to the post by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson, ronald Reagans second Secretary of Transportation, Elizabeth Dole, was the first female holder, and Mary Peters was the second. Gerald Fords nominee William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr, neil Goldschmidt was the youngest secretary, taking office at age thirty nine, while Norman Mineta was the oldest, retiring at age seventy four. The salary of the Secretary of Transportation is $199,700, elaine Chao, who served as Secretary of Labor under President George W. Bush, was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump on November 29,2016. On January 31,2017 the Senate confirmed her appointment by a vote of 93-6, the most recent Secretary of Transportation to die was William T. Coleman, Jr. on March 31,2017. The most recently serving Secretary of Transportation to die was Andrew L. Lewis, general Biographical Sketches of the Secretaries of Transportation. Specific Official website The Fast Lane, the blog of the Secretary The Department of Transportation Act
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George H. W. Bush
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George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who was the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and the 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Republican Party, he was previously a congressman, ambassador, and he is the oldest living former President and Vice President. Prior to his sons presidency, he was referred to as George Bush or President Bush. Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Bush postponed his university studies, enlisted in the U. S. Navy on his 18th birthday and he served until the end of the war, then attended Yale University. Graduating in 1948, he moved his family to West Texas and entered the oil business, Bush became involved in politics soon after founding his own oil company, serving as a member of the House of Representatives and Director of Central Intelligence, among other positions. He failed to win the Republican nomination for President in 1980, but was chosen as a mate by party nominee Ronald Reagan. During his tenure, Bush headed administration task forces on deregulation, in 1988, Bush ran a successful campaign to succeed Reagan as President, defeating Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis. Foreign policy drove the Bush presidency, military operations were conducted in Panama and the Persian Gulf, the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, and the Soviet Union dissolved two years later. Domestically, Bush reneged on a 1988 campaign promise and, after a struggle with Congress and his presidential library was dedicated in 1997, and he has been active—often alongside Bill Clinton—in various humanitarian activities. Besides being the 43rd president, his son George also served as the 46th Governor of Texas and is one of only two other being John Quincy Adams—to be the son of a former president. His second son, Jeb Bush, served as the 43rd Governor of Florida, George Herbert Walker Bush was born at 173 Adams Street in Milton, Massachusetts, on June 12,1924, to Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Bush. The Bush family moved from Milton to Greenwich, Connecticut, shortly after his birth, growing up, his nickname was Poppy. Bush began his education at the Greenwich Country Day School in Greenwich. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Bush decided to join the US, Navy, so after graduating from Phillips Academy in 1942, he became a naval aviator at the age of 18. He was assigned to Torpedo Squadron as the officer in September 1943. The following year, his squadron was based on USS San Jacinto as a member of Air Group 51, during this time, the task force was victorious in one of the largest air battles of World War II, the Battle of the Philippine Sea. After Bushs promotion to Lieutenant on August 1,1944, San Jacinto commenced operations against the Japanese in the Bonin Islands, Bush piloted one of four Grumman TBM Avenger aircraft from VT-51 that attacked the Japanese installations on Chichijima
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Samuel K. Skinner
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Samuel Knox Skinner is an American politician, lawyer and businessman. Skinner served as U. S. Secretary of Transportation and White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. Skinner was born in Chicago, Illinois, on June 10,1938 and he grew up in Springfield, Illinois and Wheaton, Illinois, and graduated from Wheaton Community High School in 1956. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1960 with a Bachelor of Science in accounting and he was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha, Beta Eta chapter at the University of Illinois. Upon graduation, he served as a lieutenant and a platoon leader in the United States Army in 1960-1961. He graduated from DePaul University Law School in 1966, where he served on the law review, after his military service, Skinner held various sales and management positions with the IBM Corporation from 1960 to 1968. In 1967, IBM selected him Outstanding Salesman of the Year, although offered position to serve as Executive Assistant to the President of IBM, Skinner decided to enter a career in public service. From 1968 to 1975, Skinner served in the office of the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois and, in 1975, also during that time, President Reagan appointed Skinner as Vice Chairman of the Presidents Commission on Organized Crime. Skinner also practiced with the Chicago-based law firm Hopkins & Sutter and he is currently of counsel at the law firm of Greenberg Traurig, LLP, and was a Commissioner of the Department of Defenses Base Realignment and Closure Commission. He serves on the Board of Visitors of the Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy, in that capacity, he served as chief executive officer of a cabinet-level federal department with a budget of over $30 billion and a workforce of 105,000 people. He also issued regulations mandating wheelchair lifts on buses, washingtonian magazine twice gave Skinner its highest ranking for his performance as Secretary of Transportation. Skinner and his first wife, Susan Ann Thomas, had three children and his son, Thomas V. Skinner, is the former head of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agencys national compliance program and director of the EPAs region 5. His daughter, Jane Skinner Goodell, is a news anchor on Fox News Channels Happening Now. Another son, Steven K. Skinner, is the CEO of KemperSports, Skinner currently resides in Winnetka, Illinois with his wife, Honey Jacobs Skinner, a retired partner at the law firm Sidley Austin LLP, and his two sons, Sam and Will. Heritage Foundation Policy Research and Analysis, Sam Skinners Sensible National Transportation Strategy. Heritage Foundation Policy Research and Analysis, Sam Skinner joins Board of Odetics ITS
