Hillary's 2008 Campaign Manager
Named Director of Harvard's Political School
by Dr. Susan Berry 6 Jun 2014
Hillary Clinton’s former top White House aide and campaign
manager for her 2008 presidential bid was named Thursday as the new director of
the Institute
of Politics (IOP) at Harvard’s Kennedy School.
Maggie Williams, who served as the former First Lady’s
chief of staff in the White House and then turned around Clinton’s floundering 2008 presidential
campaign, will head up the Institute, to which she has been connected for
years. The IOP, established as a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy,
is known for its polling of students and political research.
According to the Washington Post, Williams
has been among a small circle of confidantes who are helping Clinton weigh a 2016 presidential campaign.
She reportedly met Clinton
while working at the Children’s Defense Fund
in the 1980s and was an advisor to her through the Monica Lewinsky scandal and other
crises during her husband’s administration.
Following the suicide of lawyer Vince
Foster, Williams was interrogated and accused of removing files from his
office.
Williams also served as chief of staff to
President Bill Clinton at the Clinton Foundation.
“Maggie’s political wisdom and her long
record of mentoring and supporting young leaders—not only in politics but in
many career fields—and the example she sets in fostering and sustaining
relationships across the political spectrum make her the right leader for the
IOP today,” said Ken Duberstein, chair of the IOP
Senior Advisory Committee and former chief-of-staff to President Ronald Reagan.
“I look forward to working with her to help inspire the next generation of
young Americans to answer the call to public service.”
Maggie Williams
Margaret
A. Williams is a senior advisory committee member for the Harvard University Institute of Politics, was Hillary Rodham Clinton’s chief of staff, an assistant to the
president for William J. Clinton, a
communications director for the Children's Defense Fund,
and a director of media relations for the Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities.
Note: Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Children's
Defense Fund, the Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities, the Committee for Economic
Development, the Hudson Institute (think
tank), the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the Roosevelt Institute,
the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund,
the Urban Institute (think tank), the Common Cause, the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and the Center for American
Progress.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society, a supporter for the Center for
American Progress, is a co-chair, national finance council at Ready for Hillary, and the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for
American Progress, the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), and the American Constitution
Society.
Kenneth
M. Duberstein was a VP for the Committee for Economic
Development, is a trustee emeritus at the Hudson
Institute (think tank), a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and the chairman for the Harvard University Institute of Politics.
John C.
Culver is a governor at the Roosevelt Institute,
and a senior advisory committee member for the Harvard
University Institute of Politics.
Caroline
B. Kennedy was a director at the NAACP Legal Defense &
Educational Fund, and is an honorary chair at the Harvard University Institute of Politics.
Richard
L. Thornburgh is a life trustee at the Urban Institute (think
tank), and was a director at the Harvard
University Institute of Politics.
James A.
Leach was the chairman for the Common Cause, a
trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank), and a director at the Harvard
University Institute of Politics.
Sonal Shah
was a fellow at the Aspen Institute (think
tank), is a fellow at the Center for American
Progress, and a resident fellow at the Harvard
University Institute of Politics.
Chuck Hagel
was the chairman for the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), a senior advisory committee member for the Harvard University Institute of Politics, and is the
secretary at the U.S. Department of Defense for the
Barack Obama administration.
Antonia
Hernandez was a director at the American Constitution
Society, is a director at the Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities, and a senior advisory committee member for the Harvard University Institute of Politics.
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