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Parent topics
- President of the United States of America [r]: Head of state and government of the United States of America; elected through an electoral college and responsible for appointing Federal judges and senior officials of the executive branch, subject to Senate confirmation [e]
- U.S. Democratic Party [r]: One of the two major political parties in the United States; usually described as center-left. [e]
Subtopics
- Joe Biden [r]: (1942–) Current Vice President of the United States; formerly U.S. senator from Delaware [e]
Senior appointments
- David Axelrod [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dennis Blair [r]: Director of National Intelligence in the Obama administration; Deputy Executive Director and Guiding Coalition, Project for National Security Reform; retired Admiral, United States Navy; only destroyer captain known to have water-skied behind his warship [e]
- Hillary Clinton [r]: U.S. Secretary of State since January 2009; Democratic Party contender for the presidential nomination, 2008; former First Lady (born 1947). [e]
- Steven Chu [r]: U.S. Secretary of Energy in the Obama administration. Nobel Prize recipient in Physics. [e]
- Tom Daschle [r]: Withdrawn nominee United States Secretary of Health and Human Services of the Obama administration; former U.S. Senator [e]
- Shaun Donovan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rahm Emanuel [r]: Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama; former U.S. Representative (D-Illinois) replaced by Michael Quigley; 0% "true liberal" 2008 rating from American Conservative Union [e]
- Robert M. Gates [r]: The 22nd, and current, Secretary of Defense of the United States. [e]
- Timothy Geithner [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Gibbs [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Judd Gregg [r]: U.S. Senator (R-New Hampshire); Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, participant 2009 White House Forum on Health Reform [e]
- Richard Holbrooke [r]: United States diplomat, currently the U.S. special envoy to South Asia, including Afghanistan; director, National Endowment for Democracy; Director, Atlantic Council [e]
- Eric Holder [r]: (born January 21, 1951) Current United States Attorney General in the Obama administration [e]
- Valery Jarrett [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Jones [r]: Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the Obama Administration, he is a retired United States Marine Corps general, whose last active duty assignment was NATO military and United States European Command senior officer; previously Commandant of the Marine Corps [e]
- George Mitchell [r]: Obama administration special envoy to the Middle East; Member, International Crisis Group; successful mediator in Northern Ireland; retired U.S. Senator [e]
- Janet Napolitano [r]: United States Secretary of Homeland Security in the Obama Administration; former Governor of Arizona [e]
- Peter Orszag [r]: Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama administration [e]
- Ray LaHood [r]: U.S. Secretary of Transportation and former U.S. Representative (R-Illinois); adviser, Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation [e]
- Leon Panetta [r]: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Obama administration; Member, Iraq Study Group; Chief of Staff in the Clinton Administration; former Member of Congress [e]
- Susan Rice [r]: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in the Obama administration; previously senior fellow in foreign policy, Brookings Institution [e]
- Ken Salazar [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hilda Solis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Eric Shinseki [r]: U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs in the Obama Administration, and a retired four-star general whose last assignment was Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army [e]
- Tom Vilsack [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008
- 2008 United States presidential election [r]: The 55th quadrennial United States presidential election held on November 4, 2008. [e]
