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1952 steel strike

Attending the meeting were Attorney-General James P. McGranery, who had been confirmed by the Senate on May 20; Solicitor General Philip Perlman; Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett; White House Counsel Charles S. Murphy; Press Secretary Joseph Short; Steelman and Sawyer.

Ann Stock

During the 1980 U.S. presidential election, Stock was deputy press secretary for Vice President of the United States Walter Mondale.

Don Rojas

He served as press secretary for Prime Minister Maurice Bishop from 1981–1983, until a Bishop power-sharing dispute led to fighting and Bishop's death.

Gordon Ackerman

In the late 1980s, Ackerman carried out reporting assignments in Eastern Europe for Pierre Salinger, European News Director of ABC News and former press secretary to President John F. Kennedy.

Graham Freudenberg

Norman Graham Freudenberg AM (born 1934) is an Australian author and political speechwriter who worked in the Australian Labor Party for over forty years, beginning when he was appointed Arthur Calwell's press secretary in June 1961.

Jennifer Donahue

After the 1992 presidential race, Donahue began a job as the press secretary for United States Senator Hank Brown.

Khalid Hasan

He was asked by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on taking office in December 1971 to join him as his first press secretary.

New Hampshire General Court

Colin Manning resigned from his work as a State House syndicated columnist for Foster's Daily Democrat to become Governor John Lynch's press secretary.


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Americablog

AMERICAblog first received widespread media attention after it revealed that Jeff Gannon, a member of the White House press corps with a reputation for asking 'softball' questions at opportune moments for Press Secretary Scott McClellan, was actually James Guckert and had advertised his services as a gay male escort.

Anne Williams Wheaton

On May 2, 1957, in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's office, Wheaton was sworn in as Associate Press Secretary at the White House.

Austen Ivereigh

In October 2004, Ivereigh was appointed press secretary to the Archbishop of Westminster, working alongside his public affairs adviser, Sir Stephen Wall.

Brian Doyle

Brian J. Doyle (born 1950), former press secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security

C. J. Cregg

The character is loosely based on Dee Dee Myers, a show consultant and former press secretary to the Clinton administration.

Chris Moncrieff

Sir Bernard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher's former press secretary, said of Moncrieff "He is the nearest approach to the 24 hour journalist I have ever known".

Cyndy Brucato

From 1990-1996, Brucato served as Deputy Chief of Staff, Director of Communications and Press Secretary for Republican Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson.

David T. Johnson

In 1995, Johnson became Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs at the White House and Spokesman for the United States National Security Council.

Dayton Duncan

In politics, Duncan served as chief of staff to New Hampshire governor Hugh Gallen; deputy national press secretary for Walter Mondale's presidential campaign in 1984; and national press secretary for Michael Dukakis's 1988 presidential campaign.

Dooly County, Georgia

Notable Dooly County residents include former governor George Busbee; former U.S. senator Walter F. George; the late Jody Powell, press secretary and aide to Jimmy Carter during his governorship and U.S. presidency; and Roger Kingdom, an Olympic gold medalist in track and field.

Doug Hattaway

From 1986-89, Hattaway was press secretary to Representative Andy Ireland (R-FL), who had been elected in 1973 as a Democrat, but switched parties in 1984.

Emily J. Miller

Miller also served as Press Secretary for Rep. Rick Lazio (R-NY), serving both national and New York media markets.

Fitzwater

Marlin Fitzwater, former press secretary for presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

Floyd Norris

From 1974-1977, he worked for UPI, then from 1977-1978, he was press secretary for Senator John Durkin.

Goldie Taylor

Volunteering for her first political campaign in 1993, Taylor worked as an unpaid deputy press secretary for Michael Lomax’s Atlanta mayoral campaign.

Gretchen Morgenson

In mid-1993, she left Forbes magazine to become the executive editor at Worth magazine but in September 1995 took on the job of press secretary for the Presidential election campaign of Steve Forbes following which she was appointed assistant managing editor at Forbes magazine.

Hagerty

James Hagerty (1909–1981), American White House press secretary under Dwight D. Eisenhower

Indiana Daily Student

Washington journalist Robert E Thompson who served in 1958 as John F. Kennedy's press secretary and covered eleven presidents as a White House Newsman served as editor-in-chief in 1949.

Irma Clark-Coleman

Beginning in 1967, Clark-Coleman held a variety of positions in Wayne County government; starting as a stenographer, and eventually serving as Assistant Director for Public Information to the county Road Commission, Media Relations Manager for Wayne County Executive William Lucas, Press Secretary to County Executive Ed McNamara and Director of Human Relations.

James Hagerty

Hagerty appeared on the TV panel show What's My Line in March 1957 during his tenure as Press Secretary.

Jerald terHorst

Ron Ziegler, Nixon's own press secretary, was scheduled to appear via telephone hookup, but failed to connect; Ford's third son, Steven Ford, joined the panel briefly to participate in its conclusion.

Jerry Warren

:For the American journalist and Presidential press secretary, see Gerald Lee Warren.

Joe Langworth

His partner is James Matthew Jones, a leading global public health consultant who served as press secretary to Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and as executive vice president of The Vaccine Fund, a multi-billion dollar charity founded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Joe Lockhart

He worked as press secretary for several Democratic politicians, including Walter Mondale, Paul Simon, and Michael Dukakis; he was an advisor to John Kerry during his 2004 presidential campaign.

John Bennett Perry

His first wife was Suzanne Langford, a former press secretary to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, with whom he fathered Matthew Perry.

John C. Waugh

He was a media specialist on the staff of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller 1973–1976 and press secretary to Democratic Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico 1983–1988.

Jove Francisco

Mr. Francisco's name and blog was mentioned (by then Rep. Gilbert Remulla) during the hearings at the lower house on the Hello Garci controversy, specifically about the CD burning of the two discs that Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye presented during a press briefing.

Kitty Kelley

She worked at the New York World's Fair in 1964 and went on to become a receptionist/press secretary for Senator Eugene McCarthy.

Larry Speakes

After briefly serving as President Ford's personal press secretary in 1977, Speakes ventured into the private sector as vice president of the international public relations firm of Hill & Knowlton until 1981.

Lisa Caputo

Prior to that, Caputo ran Al Gore’s media operations at the 1992 Democratic National Convention and was the Press Secretary to US Senator Tim Wirth and to US Representative Bob Traxler.

Martha Rountree

"I think of Martha as one of the most creative women I’ve ever known,” opined Liz Carpenter, the former White House staff director and press secretary of Lady Bird Johnson.

Mitch Krebs

From February 2007 to November 2008 Krebs served as press secretary for South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds.

Murder of Eve Carson

Speakers have included Elizabeth Edwards, author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson, now Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, Mika Brzezinski, and most recently, former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.

Nick Cullather

Cullather graduated from Indiana University (AB 1981) before working as press secretary for US Representative Lee H. Hamilton in the 1980s.

Óscar Felipe Ventura

He took part in the founding of the Revolutionary Left Union (UNIR) in 1979, becoming the Press Secretary of the party his department.

Oscar Orbos

He co-hosted GMA Network's Firing Line, a TV panel talk show with Teodoro Benigno, Mrs. Aquino's former press secretary.

Paolo Tamburello

In 2009, the Montreal Gazette reported that Tamburello and city councillor Marcel Tremblay, the mayor's brother, "were reported to have spoken on behalf of" developer Michael Rosenberg, a contributor to Union Montreal, to Canadian prime minister's press secretary Dimitri Soudas.

Paul Simon Public Policy Institute

Before Yepsen's arrival in 2009, Mike Lawrence, press secretary and senior policy adviser to Governor Jim Edgar for nearly a decade, served as director from October 2004 to November 2008.

Paul Sperry

A White House spokesman said, "The President does not regret making those comments," and Sperry said Press Secretary Joe Lockhart personally told him he would never be invited back to the White House.

Richard T. Cole

From 1983 through 1988, Cole was the press secretary and later chief of staff for Governor James Blanchard.

Roger A. Caras

During 15 years in the film world, Caras held a number of assignments, including serving as press secretary for actress Joan Crawford, and from 1965 to 1969 as vice president of Stanley Kubrick's production company, Hawk Films, working with Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke on the science fiction epic 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Steve Plank

Within two weeks of the Rapture, Plank accepts a post as press secretary for rising international political leader Nicolae Carpathia, and nominates Buck to take his place as senior editor.

Swedish general election, 2006, computer infringement affair

March 15 2006 - Niki Westerberg, press secretary of the Liberal Party, informs party secretary Johan Jakobsson that she thinks Per Jodenius has access to the Social Democrats' intranet.

Timeline of the Hello Garci scandal

June 6 - In a press conference Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye plays two recordings of telephone conversations supposedly between President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Election Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano.

Tom Roeser

In 1958 he was named press secretary to a newly elected Republican congressman, Rep. Albert H. Quie of Minnesota.

Viktor Filatov

He was press-secretary of Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the editor-in-chief of the newspaper LDPR of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.

Vizsla

Former White House Press Secretary and cohost of The Five, Dana Perino has owned two Vizslas, Henry (deceased) and Jasper.

William Rivers Pitt

In January 2004, Pitt took over for David Swanson as the Press Secretary for Dennis Kucinich, who was seeking the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2004 presidential election.