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Barack Obama: 44th president of the United States

The baby born to Obama team members Samantha Power and Cass Sunstein is but one illustration of the family ties binding the Obama administration.

Her position is obscure, but White House Staff Secretary Lisa Brown is one of the more powerful behind-the-scenes players in the Obama administration.

Word is that Herb Allison, a longtime Wall Street executive with ties to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, will be tapped to head the government’s $700-billion financial rescue program.

If Barack Obama and his family decide to summer in Oak Bluffs, as the Boston Globe reports they are considering, they would enjoy not just pristine beaches, but a social scene that includes some of the nation’s most successful black artists, thinkers and entrepreneurs.

From the outset of his political career, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke was bullish about business.

At a time of continuing economic crisis, how many of Obama’s appointees have ties to labor groups, and how influential are they?

A Harley-riding economist has taken what may be the toughest job on President Obama’s auto task force – helping to rebuild the communities likely to be devastated by the industry’s downsizing.

Further signaling its shift away from the Bush administration, the Obama administration has nominated Harold Hongju Koh, the dean of the Yale University School of law, to be the top legal adviser at the State Department.

To save on travel expenses, the Harvard Law School Class of 1991 might as well have its reunion this year at the White House.

Michelle Obama has turned to a Harvard Law School connection to help her connect to Washington.

He is a law school friend of Obama’s and a successful, high-tech entrepreneur who looks to expand broadband service to rural and underserved areas, and to promote an open Internet and diverse media ownership.

Despite intense, behind-the-scenes lobbying by some Jewish groups, the Obama administration yesterday tapped veteran diplomat Chas W. Freeman Jr. to head the National Intelligence Council in what may be its most controversial appointment yet.

Ashton B. Carter is the Harvard physicist who first cast cold water on President Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” plan to build a missile shield to protect the U.S. from nuclear attack.

Just when you thought R. Hunter Biden’s retirement as a lobbyist had removed the possibility his business dealings might embarrass his father, comes a report that he and his uncle had business ties with Texas financier R. Allen Stanford.

Consider Earl Devaney a one-man corruption buster.

Earlier stories
Tom Daschle tapped for HHS - November 20, 2008
Eliot Spitzer offers Obama advice - November 17, 2008
The transfer of power begins - November 5, 2008
Obama’s grandmother dies - November 3, 2008
Hunter Biden resigns as lobbyist - September 12, 2008
Rezko ties haunt Obama - January 30, 2008

Bernard Madoff: Web of deception
June 29, 2009
June 23, 2009
May 19, 2009
May 19, 2009

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