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#WhiteHouse

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People (2)

  • Dick Cheney Ford's chief of staff who edited the Rockefeller Commission report in 1975, co-author of the Iran-Contra minority report, Secretary of Defense, Halliburton chief executive and Vice President from 2001 to 2009.
  • Mack McLarty Kindergarten classmate of Bill Clinton who succeeded Sheffield Nelson at the Arkla gas utility, became Clinton's first White House chief of staff, solicited consulting clients for Webster Hubbell, and went into business with Henry Kissinger.

Organizations (3)

  • Associated Press New York news cooperative of United States newspapers and broadcasters, founded in 1846, whose Berlin photo subsidiary worked under Nazi press law and whose phone records, Gaza bureau and White House access drew government action.
  • Office of Science and Technology Policy White House science and technology office whose directors under Biden and Trump shaped federal AI policy, from Eric Lander's 2022 resignation to Michael Kratsios's 2025 AI Action Plan.
  • President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board White House board of private citizens created by Eisenhower in 1956 to review foreign intelligence and the CIA, renamed by Kennedy in 1961, abolished by Carter in 1977 and later re-established.

Places (1)

  • White House The presidential residence and executive office in Washington, the point where the vault's intelligence, arms and money stories reach the president's staff, and the source of many of their authorizations.