Names, Places, and Organizations in the News


George W. Bush, President
Richard Cheney, Vice President

Executive Office
Andrew Card, Chief of Staff
Scott McClellan, Press Secretary
Joshua B. Bolten, Director of Office of Management and Budget
N. Gregory Mankiw, Chair, Council of Economic Advisors

National Security Staff
Stephen J. Hadley, National Security Advisor
John Negroponte, Director, National Intelligence
Porter Goss, Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, Chair, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Cabinet(year created)
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State (1789)
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense (1789)
John Snow, Secretary of Treasury (1789)
Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General, Justice (1789)

Gale Norton, Secretary of Interior (1849)
Mike Johanns, Secretary of Agriculture (1889)
Carlos Guiterrez, Secretary of Commerce (1902)
Robert B. Zoelick, Trade Representative (1963, 1974)
Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor (1913)
Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services (1953, 1980) Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education (1953, 1979)
Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (1965)
Noman Mineta, Secretary of Transportation (1966)
Samuel W. Bodman, Secretary of Energy (1977)
Jim Nicholson, Secretary of Veterans Affairs (1982)
Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Secuirty (2001)

Other Agencies
Anne W. Patterson, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Steve Johnson, Acting Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
Alan Greenspan, Chair, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Major Party Leaders
Howard Dean (D VT) Chair, Democratic National Committee
Ken Mehlman (R MD), Chair, Republican National Committee

Congressional Leadership and California Personnel
Dennis Hastert (R IL), Speaker, House of Representatives
Tom DeLay (R TX), House Majority Leader
Roy Blunt (R MO), House Majority Whip
Nancy Pelosi (D CA), House Minority Leader
Steny Hoyer (D MD), House Minority Whip
Mike Thompson (D), U.S. Representative, California's 1st Congressional District
Bill Frist (R TN), Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell (R KY), Senate Majority Whip
Ted Stevens (R AK), President Pro Tempore, U.S. Senate
Harry Reid (D NV), Senate Minority Leader
Richard Durbin (D IL), Senate Minority Whip
Diane Feinstein (D), Senior U.S. Senator from California
Barbara Boxer (D), Junior U.S. Senator from California
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Director, Congressional Budget Office

U.S. Supreme Court
William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States
John Paul Stevens, Senior Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
David Souter, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Ruth Bader Ginzburg, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

Major California Officials
Arnold Schwarzenneger (R), Governor, California
Cruz Bustamante (D), Lieutenant Governor, California
Don Perata (D), President Pro Tempore, California State Senate
Herb Wesson (D), Speaker, California State Assembly
James K. Hahn (D), Mayor, Los Angeles
Gavin C. Newsom (D), Mayor, San Francisco

World Figures
Kofi Annan, Secretary Geneneral, United Nations
Paul Martin, Prime Minister, Canada
Vincente Fox Quesada, President, Mexico
Tony Blair, Prime Minister, United Kingdom
Gerhard Schroeder, Chancellor, Germany
Jacques Shirac, President, France
Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister, Japan
Vladimir Putin, President, Russia
Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister, Israel
Yasser Arafat, Leader, Palestinian Authority
Osama bin Ladin, Leader, Al Qaeda
Hosni Mubarak, President, Egypt
Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein
Vojislav Kostunica, President, Yugoslavia

International Issues
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (Hamas)
Fatah, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad
IRA/UDA, Good Friday Agreement at Stormont
Dayton Accord
Hong Kong, Taiwan, Falun Gong
Rwanda, Somalia, Zaire
UN, NATO
Organization of Islamic Conference
European Union
NAFTA, GATT, OPEC
Chemical Weapons Convention
SALT II and National Missile Defense (Star Wars)

Louise Glück, U.S. Poet Laureate
Billy Collins, Former. U.S. Poet Laureate

Haji Hassan al-Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei, wealthiest person in the world

January 14, 2004


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