Mack McLarty

Infobox US Cabinet official
name=Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty III

thumb|190px
order=17^th
title=White House Chief of Staff
term_start=1993
term_end=January, 1994
predecessor=James Baker
successor= Leon Panetta
president=Bill Clinton
birth_date=birth date and age|1946|06|14
birth_place=Hope, Arkansas
death_date=
death_place=
party=Democratic
spouse=
profession=

Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty III (born June 14, 1946) is a prominent Arkansas business and political leader and former White House Chief of Staff for US President Bill Clinton. He is the President of McLarty Associates (his Washington-based consulting company - see [http://www.maglobal.com link title] www.maglobal.com), as well as Chief Executive Officer of the McLarty Companies.

Early life

McLarty was born in Hope, Arkansas, and graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1969. He is a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity. He was elected to the State Legislature at the age of 23 and served as chairman of the state Democratic Party from 1974-1976." [http://www.hsv1.net/advisory.htm]

In 1976, he became the youngest member ever elected to the Board of Directors of the Arkla Gas/Arkla, Inc., a Fortune 500 natural gas company. In 1983 he became Arkla's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. During his tenure, the company was recognized by "Forbes", "The Wall Street Transcript", and "The Financial Times" for management excellence, in addition to his automotive endeavors.

He has a distinguished record of business leadership and public service, including various roles advising three Presidents: Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. McLarty worked with President Carter as a member of the Democratic National Committee and was appointed to the National Petroleum Council and the Council on Environmental Quality.

White House years

He served as White House Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton from 1993 until 1994. In 1994, The president asked his OMB Director, Leon Panetta, what was wrong with his administration and was told about the lack of order in the White House. McLarty was out. "Panetta replaced McLarty for the rest of Clinton's first term -- and the rest is history. To be a great leader, a modern president must have a great chief of staff -- and in Leon Panetta, Clinton got the enforcer he deserved." [Sources: Nigel Hamilton, "Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency", copyright 2007 and article, Boston Globe 7/13/2007] .

McLarty is a lifelong friend of Clinton's, both having been in the same kindergarten class together. He was also a counselor to the President after leaving the Chief of Staff position and was a Special Envoy for the Americas. He also served for five years in on the National Economic Council."

Serving as Clinton's "special envoy for the Americas," in which capacity he was a key mover and shaker in the creation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), which was supported by the Council of the Americas, established by David Rockefeller in 1965. He was a top official at the 1994 Miami Summit of the Americas, which laid the groundwork for this Trade bloc; as well as serving as a key liaison to Clinton for Rockefeller's Council in the implementation of this trade agreement. [cite book
last=Rockefeller
first=David
authorlink=David Rockefeller
title=Memoirs
publisher=New York: Random House, 2002 (p.437)]

McLarty Companies

"The McLarty Companies comprises 11 automotive dealerships located in five states that generate in excess of $600 million. Mr. McLarty began his career building the company his grandfather founded, McLarty Leasing Systems, into one of the nation's largest transportation companies." Upon leaving the White House in July 1998, Mr. McLarty returned to the McLarty Companies as its Chairman. Landers Mclarty Nissan in Bentonville is the pride of his dealerships. cite web
url=http://www.asburyauto.com/nerve/dealmgmtlist.html#mclart
title=The Team - Dealer Management
publisher=Asbury Automotive Group]

Affiliations

Commercial

*Director, Acxiom Corporation
*Director, Union Pacific Railroad [http://www.uprr.com/newsinfo/releases/financial/2006/1116_mclarty.shtml]
*Advisory Board, Leeds Equity Partners [http://www.leedsequity.com]
*Advisory Board, Cato Institute/Inter-American Dialogue [http://www.cato.org/research/articles/hanke-030218.pdf]
*Advisory Board, Diligence Inc. (Intelligence and Risk Management Consulting) [http://www.diligencellc.com]
*Senior Advisor, Carlyle Group (From 2003)

Non-profit

*Trustee, [http://www.thepresidency.org/info/trustees.htm Center for the Study of the Presidency]
*International Council of Trustees, [http://www.wcrp.org/RforP/GBTRUSTEES_CONTENT.html#McLarty Religions for Peace]
*Advisory Board, New Democrat Network
*Member, U.S.-Mexico Binational Council [http://www.csis.org/americas/mexico/binational_council.pdf]
*Member, Council on Foreign Relations (2001)

Further reading

*Clinton, Bill. "My Life". New York: Vintage, 2005. ISBN 1-4000-3003-X

References

External links

* [http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/aae/side/whitewa.html Clinton Presidency / White Water Affair] .
* [http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2000/564.shtml Hillary Rodham Clinton / Travelgate] .
* [http://www.stoptheftaa.org Stop the FTAA] A website of the John Birch Society, this details the figures and process behind the founding and ongoing support of the FTAA, including McLarty's involvement.
* [http://www.fair.org/extra/9303/clintoncabinet.html "David Corn's report in "The Nation" (1/25/93) that Clinton chief of staff Thomas McLarty was under investigation by the Resolution Trust Company] , the government entity tracing where the missing S&L funds went. McLarty was connected to a failed thrift that made $300 million in questionable loans, including $5.6 million to Bentsen's son that was never paid back."
*Thomas F. McLarty III, [http://www.counciloftheamericas.org/coa/publications/opedmclarty12-02-2001.html Put Mexico Relations Back on Front Burner] ,"Los Angeles Times", December 2, 2001.
*Bill Richardson and Thomas F. McLarty, [http://www.energycrisis.com/debate/richardson.htm OPEC's clout isn't what it used to be] , "San Jose Mercury News", November 4, 2001.

* WHITE HOUSE AIDE BECOMES SUBJECT OF NEW INQUIRIES, NY Times, March 27, 1994 [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E2DF1F3CF934A15750C0A962958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all]