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Muckety list of top Washington power couples, 2009

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February 17, 2009 at 8:02am
  Name Title
  Barack Obama president
  Michelle Obama first lady, former hospital executive, lawyer
  Hillary Rodham Clinton secretary of state; former NY senator
  William J. Clinton former president; foundation chief
  John F. Kerry chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  Teresa Heinz Kerry philanthropist
  Joseph R. Biden Jr. vice president
  Jill Biden educator
  Vernon E. Jordan Jr. of counsel, Akin, Gump
  Ann Dibble Jordan director of Citigroup, Catalyst and several nonprofits
  John D. Dingell member of Congress (D-MI)
  Deborah Dingell president, General Motors Foundation
  Mandy Grunwald president, Grunwald Communications
  Matthew Cooper editor-at-large, Talkingpointsmemo.com
  Dianne Feinstein Senate Intelligence Committee chair
  Richard C. Blum chairman, Blum Capital Partners
  Nancy Pelosi House speaker
  Paul Pelosi financier
  Victoria Nuland former ambassador to NATO
  Robert Kagan neoconservative author
  Byron L. Dorgan senator (D-N.D.)
  Kimberly Dorgan senior lobbyist, American Council of Life Insurers
  Tom Daschle former nominee for health & human services
  Linda H. Daschle aerospace lobbyist
  Susan E. Rice ambassador to the UN
  Ian O. Cameron executive producer, This Week with George Stephanopolous
  Christopher Lu White House cabinet secretary; transition team director
  Kathryn B. Thomson partner, Sidley Austin
  Anthony T. Podesta Podesta Group co-founder
  Heather Podesta founder, Heather Podesta & Partners
  Colin L. Powell former general, secretary of state, philanthropist
  Alma J. Powell philanthropist
  Eric H. Holder Jr. attorney general
  Sharon Malone obstetrician
  Timothy F. Geithner treasury secretary
  Carole Sonnenfeld Geithner social worker; former Common Cause researcher
  James A. Johnson Perseus vice chairman; Democratic operative
  Maxine Isaacs former Walter Mondale press secretary
  Jane Lakes Harman member of Congress (D-CA)
  Sidney Harman chairman, Harman International Industries
  Richard C. Holbrooke special envoy to Afghanistan, Pakistan
  Kati Marton journalist; director, Committee to Protect Journalists
  Kent Conrad senator (D-N.D.)
  Lucy J. Calautti lobbyist, Major League Baseball
  Christopher J. Dodd senator (D-Conn.)
  Jackie Clegg Dodd managing partner, Clegg International Consultants
  Cokie Roberts ABC News political reporter
  Steven V. Roberts professor, George Washington University
  Lawrence H. Summers National Economic Council chairman
  Elisa New Harvard literature professor
  John Podesta president, Center for American Progress; transition team co-chairman
  Mary S. Podesta senior counsel, Investment Company Institute
  Mark J. Penn president & CEO; Burson-Marsteller; Hillary Clinton strategist
  Nancy Jacobson Democratic fund-raiser
  Louis R. Cohen senior counsel, Wilmer Cutler
  Bonnie R. Cohen principal, BR Cohen and Associates
  Strobe Talbott president, Brookings Institution; former deputy secretary of state
  Brooke Shearer director, Foundation for the National Archives
  Roy Blunt member of Congress (R-MO)
  Abigal Perlman Blunt lobbyist, Altria
  Gregory B. Craig White House counsel
  Margaret D. Noyes art director, U.S. Postal Service
  Bill Paxon lobbyist, Akin Gump
  Susan Molinari chairman, The Washington Group
  Jeff Bingaman senator (D-NM)
  Anne K. Bingaman founder, teleconferencing company
  Carol M. Browner energy czar
  Thomas J. Downey former NY congressman; lobbyist
  David W. Ogden deputy attorney general
  Anne Harkavy partner, Wilmer Cutler
  Mitch McConnell Senate minority leader
  Elaine L. Chao former secretary of labor
  Julius Genachowski nominee, FCC chairman
  Rachel Goslins international copyright lawyer; documentary filmmaker
  Kirk Adams chief of staff, Service Employees International Union
  Cecile Richards president, Planned Parenthood; daughter, Gov. Ann Richards
  David Hirschmann SVP, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
  Susan B. Hirschmann lobbyist, Williams & Jensen
  Laura D’Andrea Tyson economic adviser to President Obama
  Erik Tarloff novelist and screenwriter
  Eric I. Cantor member of Congress (R-VA); Republican whip
  Diana F. Cantor managing director, New York Private Bank & Trust
  Robert Borosage director, Campaign for America’s Future
  Barbara Shailor international director, AFL-CIO
  John D. Negroponte former intelligence czar, ambassador to the UN, Iraq
  Diana Negroponte trustee, Freedom House
  Robert B. Barnett attorney, Williams & Connelly
  Rita Braver senior correspondent, CBS News
  Frederic V. Malek chairman, Thayer Capital Partners
  Marlene A. Malek philanthropist
  Joseph B. Gildenhorn chairman, Woodrow Wilson Center
  Alma L. Gildenhorn trustee, Aspen Institute, Kennedy Center
  Christina D. Romer chairman, Council of Economic Advisers
  David H. Romer economics professor, Berkeley
  George Stephanopoulos ABC News host; former White House communications director
  Alexandra Wentworth actress; daughter of Nancy Reagan’s social secretary
  Al Hunt executive Washington editor, Bloomberg News
  Judy Woodruff senior correspondent, Newshour with Jim Lehrer
  Campbell Brown CNN talk show host
  Daniel S. Senor managing director, Rosemont Capital
  Chris Matthews host, MSNBC’s Hardball
  Kathleen Matthews EVP, Marriott International; former journalist
  Andrea Mitchell NBC correspondent
  Alan Greenspan former chairman, Federal Reserve
  James D. Wolfensohn former World Bank president
  Elaine Wolfensohn educator, philanthropist
  William A. Nitze president, Gemstar Group
  Ann Nitze art dealer
  Khalid R. Pitts political accountability director, SEIU; co-owner, Cork
  Diane L. Gross co-owner, Cork; former civil rights lawyer
  Bob Woodward chronicler of power; associate editor, Washington Post
  Elsa Walsh New Yorker writer
  George Will conservative columnist
  Mari Maseng Will former spokesman, Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole
  Mary Matalin GOP consultant; former aide to Dick Cheney
  James Carville Democratic consultant; campaign strategist
  Nancy Mitchell Pfotenhauer conservative activist; spokeswoman, McCain campaign
  Kurt P. Pfotenhauer CEO, American Land Title Association
  Kenneth M. Pollack Middle East expert, Brookings Institution
  Andrea Koppel communications director, M+R Strategic Services
  Fred Wertheimer president, Democracy 21
  Linda Wertheimer NPR correspondent
  Sally Quinn Washington Post writer
  Benjamin Bradlee Washington Post editor emeritus
  David Gregory moderator, Meet the Press
  Beth A. Wilkinson partner, Paul Weiss Rifkind; former federal prosecutor
  Adrian M. Fenty Washington mayor
  Michelle Cross Fenty of counsel, Perkins Coie
  B. Robert Okun chief lobbyist, NBC Universal
  Deanna Tanner Okun commissioner and former chair, ITC
  Ana Marie Cox Washington editor of Time.com, founding editor of Wonkette
  Christopher Lehmann editor, CQ Weekly
  Jim VandeHei Politico co-founder, executive editor
  Autumn VandeHei VP, Capital Management Initiatives
  David G. Bradley chairman, Atlantic Media
  Katherine Bradley philanthropist
  Michael Chertoff former homeland security secretary
  Meryl Justin Chertoff director, Sandra Day O’Connor Project
  Walter Pincus national security reporter, Washington Post
  Ann T. Pincus communications director, Construction Trades Training Council
  Lloyd N. Hand senior counsel, King & Spalding
  Ann Hand jewelry designer
  Norah O’Donnell chief Washington correspondent, MSNBC
  Geoff Tracy owner, Chef Geoff’s restaurant
  Nina Totenberg NPR legal correspondent
  H. David Reines surgeon

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