Joshua Bolten

Infobox US Cabinet official
name=Joshua Brewster Bolten


order=22^nd
office=White House Chief of Staff
term_start=April 14, 2006
term_end=
president=George W. Bush
predecessor=Andrew Card
successor= "Incumbent"
president=George W. Bush
birth_date=birth date and age|1954|08|16
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death_date=
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party=Republican
religion=Jewish
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Joshua Brewster Bolten (born August 16, 1954) is the current White House Chief of Staff serving U.S. President George W. Bush. Bolten replaced Andrew Card on April 14 2006.

Early history

Bolten's father, Seymour, worked for the CIA and his mother, Analouise, taught world history at the George Washington University. [cite news | last=Birnbaum | first=Jeff | title=Yosh! | date=Summer 2004 | publisher=Stanford Lawyer| url=http://www.law.stanford.edu/publications/stanford_lawyer/issues/69/bolten.html] He graduated from St. Albans School, and he is now on the school's board.

At Princeton University, he studied in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and served as class president and president of The Ivy Club. [cite news | last=Cai | first=Angela |title=Bush names Bolten '76 chief of staff | date=29 March 2006 | publisher=Daily Princetonian Publishing Company, Inc. | url=http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/03/29/news/14966.shtml | accessdate=2008-07-06] He graduated in 1976. He graduated from Stanford Law School in 1980 and served as an editor of the law review.

Professional life

Formerly the Director on Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Bolten was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to that position in 2003. Bolten was Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy at the White House from 2001 to 2003. He previously served as policy director for the 2000 George W. Bush Presidential campaign from 1999 to 2000 and as Executive Director for Legal and Government Affairs at Goldman Sachs in London from 1994 to 1999. [ [http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/bolten-bio.html Joshua Bolten, White House Chief of Staff ] ]

He was general counsel to the Office of the United States Trade Representative for three years and Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs for one year during the administration of George H. W. Bush. Bolten is the second Jewish person appointed as White House Chief of Staff (Ken Duberstein, who held that post during the Reagan Administration, was the first), [cite news | last=Berger | first=Matthew |title=New chief of staff has strong Jewish identity | date=31 March 2006 | publisher=Jewish News Weekly of Northern California | url=http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/28777/format/html/displaystory.html | accessdate=2007-03-14] and, after Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, the second Jewish person appointed to the Bush cabinet. [cite news | last=Guttman | first=Nathan |title=Top White House posts go to Jews | date=25 April 2006 | publisher=Jerusalem Post | url=http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498911316&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull | accessdate=2007-07-26]

Bolten was named as White House Chief of Staff to smooth relations with the United States Congress, and to reinvigorate the West Wing staff.Fact|date=February 2007 He is credited with having assisted the President in recruiting Henry Paulson - the CEO of Goldman Sachs - to serve as Treasury Secretary, based on his former employment at the firm. [cite news | last=Gleckman | first=Howard | title=Paulson to the Rescue? | date=30 May 2006 | publisher=BusinessWeek| url=http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/may2006/nf20060530_1022.htm] In addition, he recruited Tony Snow to work as White House Press Secretary, offered Rob Portman the opportunity to succeed him as OMB Director, and brought his OMB deputy Joel Kaplan in to the White House as Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy. [cite news | last=Baker | first=Peter | title=White House Personnel Changes Complete | date=17 June 2006 | publisher=Washington Post | url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/16/AR2006061601664.html]

On June 13 2007, the House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena to Bolten for documents related to the dismissal of U.S. attorneys [Original Text of the Subpoena, U.S. House Judiciary Committee, http://judiciary.house.gov/Media/PDFS/BoltenSubpoena070613.pdf] . The subpoena had a deadline of June 28. [cite web
last = Perine
first = Keith
title = Bush, Congress in Legal Limbo Over Privilege
publisher = Congressional Quarterly
date = 2007-06-28
url = http://public.cq.com/docs/cqt/news110-000002542737.html
accessdate = 2007-07-26 ] On Wednesday, July 25 2007, the House Judiciary Committee voted 22-17 to cite Bolten for contempt of Congress for his failure to produce the documents in response to its subpoena. [cite web
last = Stout
first = David
title = Panel Holds Two Bush Aides in Contempt
publisher = New York Times
date = 2007-07-25
url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/washington/25cnd-contempt.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
accessdate = 2007-07-26 ] On Feb. 14, 2008, the full House of Representatives voted to cite him for contempt by a vote of 223-32. Many Republicans walked out of the chamber in protest, deriding the priorities of the speaker in calling the vote, as opposed to a vote on a surveillance bill. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/washington/15contempt.html?hp]

Personal life

Joshua Bolten plays bass guitar in a band called the Compassionates. [cite news
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title = White House's Bolten shows "Born to be Wild" side
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publisher = Reuters
date = June 16, 2006
url = http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=884602006
accessdate = 2006-12-25]

References

External links

* [http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/bolten-bio.html White House biography]
* [http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Josh_Bolten.php Joshua Bolten's political donations] at newsmeat.com
* [http://www.law.stanford.edu/publications/lawyer/issues/69/bolten.html Biography in Stanford Law School magazine]
* [http://www.who2.com/joshuabolten.html Who2 profile of Bolten]
* [http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/03/29/news/14966.shtml Friends discuss Bolten's college experience] at dailyprincetonian.com.
* [http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=32376 Yale Daily News: Bolten's Former Yale Colleagues Discuss the New Bush Tap] by Andrew Mangino and Maggie Reid
* [http://www.evendon.net/PublicService/cgi-bin/HandOff-1_0.cgi?DCfc2008+Congress_v_Meiers+0001 Federal Court Opinion (House of Representatives v Harriet Miers) ordering Joshua Bolten to produce documents]

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