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By Michael D. Shear President-elect Barack Obama has
formally named his friend, Valerie Jarrett, to be a...
senior adviser in the White House, a senior aide said Friday. Jarrett, who for years has been a personal friend to Obama and his wife Michelle, ...
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Valerie Jarrett Named White House Senior Advisor
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The Saturday Word: The Staff Takes Shape
The Caucus —
... On Friday Mr. Obama also announced that his long-time confidante Valerie Jarrett would take on several roles in his administration: White House senior adviser and assistant to the president for intergovernmental relations and public liaison. The Times’s Jodi Kantor provides the backstory of the relationship between Mr. Obama and Ms. Jarrett: In 1995, Ms. Jarrett joined the Habitat Company, a Chicago real estate company that develops and runs real estate projects from luxury high rises to public housing units; she is now the company’s chief executive. When Mr. Obama began his ...
Decoding the Latest White House Appointments
The Stump —
... The transition team announced three top White House staff appointments today: Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama's three transition co-chairs, will be senior adviser and assistant to the President for intergovernmental relations and public liaison (the Times has more on Jarrett's role here); Ron Klain will be Biden's chief of staff; and Phil Schiliro will be assistant to the President for legislative affairs. (Because of the leaky vessel that is the transition, word about Klain and Jarrett had already seeped out.) ...
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blogs.suntimes.com 11/15/2008 — WASHINGTON--Valerie Jarrett will be a senior advisor and assistant to the President for Inter-government relations and Public Liaison in the Obama White House. I reported in the Thursday Chicago Sun-Times that Jarrett, a confidante of President-elect ...
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politico.com 11/16/2008 — Obama annnounced three more senior White House staffers today, two of them top campaign aides and the third a former foreign service officer and National Security Council Official.
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Obama White House will have an Office of Urban Policy.
thinkprogress.org 11/11/2008 — Valerie Jarrett, transition co-chair for President-elect Barack Obama, announced that the Obama administration would create a White House chief of urban policy . Since there are “so many different agencies that really can impact urban ...
Summers to Be Top White House Economic Adviser at NEC
blogs.abcnews.com 11/22/2008 — ABC News has learned that President-elect Obama has decided to name former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers the director of the National Economic Council, essentially the president's senior economic adviser. Part of the Executive Office of the ...
Sources: Jarrett headed to White House, not Senate
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 11/11/2008 — Valerie Jarrett is one of Barack Obama's closest advisers.
(CNN) — Two Democratic sources close to President-elect Barack Obama tell CNN that top adviser Valerie Jarrett will not be appointed to replace him in the U.S. Senate.
"While he ...
Obama adviser once critical of Clinton is back
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news.yahoo.com 11/29/2008 — AP - A former adviser to Barack Obama's presidential campaign who once called Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton a "monster" is now working on the transition team for the agency that Clinton may lead.
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