Benjamin J. Rhodes is an American writer, a political commentator, and a former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under President Barack Obama.
Rhodes in June 2014
President Barack Obama and Rhodes on board Air Force One, editing the speech for the Mandela memorial service
Hillary Clinton talks with the Obamas and Rhodes on board Air Force One.
Ben Rhodes (middle) and Aung San Suu Kyi discussing U.S. support for the NLD-led government in Myanmar, July 2016
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Pod Save the World is a weekly American foreign policy podcast produced and distributed by Crooked Media, and hosted by former White House National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhod
Ben Rhodes (White House staffer)
…regularly as a political commentator to NBC News and MS NOW. He is also a Crooked Media contributor, and a co-host of the foreign policy podcast Pod Save the World. Rhodes was born on November 14, 1977 on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York. He is the son of an Episcopal father from Texas and a Jewish mother…
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