Sentences with phrase «adviser of the new president»

Through a series of circumstances, Garrigan ends up becoming the personal physician and most trusted adviser of the new president of the country, Idi Amin (Whitaker, Phone Booth), with whom he strikes up an unsteady friendship.

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The new American sanctions hit close advisers to Putin, including Sergei Ivanov, the Russian president's chief of staff and a longtime associate.

Shares of Alphabet underperformed the already sagging broader tech sector following a New York Times report that some advisers to the president are discussing subjecting Google to more antitrust scrutiny.

At the start of the Trump administration, IP3 found an ally in Tom Barrack, the new president's close friend and informal adviser and an ultra-wealthy investor in his own right.

He was a staff economist on the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan from 1986 - 87, an adviser at the New York Fed from 1991 - 92 and 1995 - 97, and an assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury from 2002 - 03.

President Donald Trump's homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert has reportedly been fired by Trump's new national security adviser, John Bolton, adding to a series of high - profile exits from the White House.

His comments were the first he has made publicly since The New York Times published a bombshell story on Tuesday that said James Comey, the FBI director whom Trump fired last week, kept memos of his meetings with Trump and had documented one in which the president said he hoped Comey would let go of the FBI's investigation into Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser.

Larry Summers, a former economic adviser to President Obama, is one of the candidates under consideration to be the new leader of the Federal Reserve.

The news of Gorka's departure was greeted with resignation by Trump loyalists, who believe the president has handed over too much power to military officers and former generals — including his new chief of staff, John Kelly, and national security adviser H.R. McMaster — and is losing any connection to the base that elected him.

The changing accounts about the president, the payment and the pornography actress came as a surprise to the attorneys of Ms. Clifford and Mr. Cohen and are forcing some of Mr. Trump's advisers to prepare for a new round of questions from the public.

Before he was ousted in November as transition chief, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, the Trump adviser with the most government experience, helped prepare a detailed staffing and implementation plan in line with the kickoff strategies of previous Republican presidents.

Over the objections of his aides and advisers — who urged him to focus on policy and the broader goals of his presidency — the new president issued a decree: He wanted a fiery public response, and he wanted it to come from his press secretary.

This week, President Obama made a speech in which he vocally supported the Department of Labor's new proposed fiduciary rule, which sets new uniform rules to ensure financial advisers always act with their clients» best interest in mind.

Economist Dr. Mark Skousen reflects on the appointment of supply - side advocate Larry Kudlow to be the President's new chief economic adviser.

An April 5 Associated Press story followed by a similar April 7 Washington Post story both asserted that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly was suffering from diminished clout in the White House, as a more confident President Trump feels comfortable taking matters directly to new hires like John Bolton and Larry Kudlow, chatting on the phone with outside advisers, and firing Cabinet secretaries over Kelly's objections.

Larry Kudlow, Mr. Trump's new director of the National Economic Council, has a direct line to the president, as does John R. Bolton, his newly installed national security adviser, who was not Mr. Kelly's preferred candidate for the role.

John Bolton's record on the marketing of baby foods John Bolton, President Trump's new national security adviser is considered by many to be the man most likely to lead the US into war.

Strategists nod to her recent appointment of L. Joy Williams, the president of the Brooklyn NAACP and board chair of Higher Heights, as a senior adviser, and Nixon's campaign launch in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a majority black neighborhood that encapsulates many of the flashpoints in the Democratic primary: It's the poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn and among the poorest in New York City, it's at the center of the affordable housing crisis, and residents are prepping for the 15 - month L train shutdown in early 2019, a symptom of New York City's dilapidated subway system that Nixon's branded» #CuomosMTA.»

Washington (CNN)- President Barack Obama plans to name Elizabeth Warren as a special adviser to help set up a new consumer protection agency created under the Wall Street reform bill, according to sources who spoke on condition of not being identified by name.

As Ben notes, former City Council President and longtime New York political insider Andrew Stein was indicted on tax charges out of the Manhattan federal prosecutor's office, part of a large bust involving a financial adviser to the stars.

President Trump on Sunday accused former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump Jr. met with Gulf adviser who offered help to win election: report Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating After year of investigation, Trump can rightly claim some vindication MORE of colluding with her party to defeat her primary opponent Sen. Bernie SandersBernard (Bernie) SandersSunday shows preview: Lawmakers weigh in after Texas school shooting Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating Primary win gives resurgent left a new shot of adrenaline MORE (I - Vt.).

The White House is finalizing a new executive action that would expand background checks on gun purchases, according to one of President Obama's senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett.

A super PAC created by President Trump's new national security adviser John Bolton was one of the earliest U.S. clients of the now - embattled data company Cambridge Analytica, which targeted voters to help boost Bolton's national security agenda, records show.

-- Vice President Joe Biden wanted to hire Bloomberg adviser Kevin Sheeky as his new chief of staff.

These are the names Mr. Reno Omokri the New Media adviser to President Jonathan uses as disguises to pass comments on news critical of President Jonathan.

Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to the president, met at the Midtown headquarters of 1199 SEIU, the health care workers» union, with about 30 other people, including 1199 president George Gresham and members of his union, representatives from 32BJ SEIU, which represents property service workers, and the New York Paid Family Leave Insurance Campaign, said Dolan, who also attended.

It is thus unclear how Mr. E.T. Mensah can emerge victorious in such an election to be one of the advisers for a President who contested and won on the ticket the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

It is thus unclear how Mr. E.T. Mensah can emerge a winner in such an election to be one of the advisers for a President on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

As Director of Parks and Recreation, Casella serves as Borough President Katz's top adviser on all parks - related capital funding, projects and policies, and chief liaison to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

Aides on Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump Jr. met with Gulf adviser who offered help to win election: report Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating After year of investigation, Trump can rightly claim some vindication MORE's 2008 presidential campaign kept a detailed list of party colleagues who staffers believed had betrayed her during the long and bitter primary battle with President Obama, a new book reveals.

Of the New York Attorney General's announcement, Trump communications adviser Jason Miller said: «Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is a partisan hack who has turned a blind eye to the Clinton Foundation for years and has endorsed Hillary Clinton for President.

Mona Nemer, a cardiology researcher and vice president of research at the University of Ottawa, has been named Canada's new chief science adviser by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Jean - Claude Juncker, the new commission's president - elect, must decide whether to keep the post; nine nongovernmental organizations have called on him to scrap it because they are angered by the support of the current science adviser, Anne Glover, for genetically modified organisms.

Soon after the election, Holt, a physicist and former Democratic congressman from New Jersey, and 28 other leaders of scientific organizations wrote a letter to President - elect Trump asking for a meeting and urging Trump to appoint quickly a respected science adviser.

August 1, 2011 Susan Sher, former Chief of Staff to the First Lady, returns to University of Chicago Medical Center Former White House adviser Susan S. Sher will return to the University of Chicago August 1 in a new role as Executive Vice President for Corporate Strategy and Public Affairs at the Medical Center, reporting to the Dean and Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, and Senior Adviser to the President of the University.

Written by an adviser to FDR who helped assemble the president's brain trust, After Seven Years is a must - read for anyone claiming to be a student of the New Deal.

April 6, 2018 • Even as President Trump is warming relationships with Muslim nations in the Middle East, he is antagonizing U.S. Muslims with his choice of a new national security adviser and secretary of state.

President Bush's decision to nominate Margaret Spellings, his chief domestic - policy adviser, as the new U.S. secretary of education signals a steady course on education policymaking from the administration, analysts say.

11/7/17 — Contrary to statements by President Trump and many of his advisers, the global climate has warmed considerably over the past century and it is «extremely likely» than human activities are the «dominant cause,» according to a major new report.

Let's pick things up with two specific appointments by President - elect Obama which have implications for U.S. - China energy relations — one being the 1997 Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. Steve Chu of Lawrence Berkeley Labs (LBL) as the new Secretary of Energy, and the other being Dr. John Holdren, physicist and energy technology policy professor at Harvard and Director of the Woods Hole Research Center (whom yours truly had the pleasure of meeting in the copy room as a policy intern there way back in 2003) as the White House science & technology adviser.

Speakers at the event will include U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire; Andrew Revkin, strategic adviser for environmental and science journalism at the National Geographic Society; NFL veteran and philanthropist Ovie Mughelli; and Denis Hayes, President of the Bullitt Foundation, Board Chair Emeritus of Earth Day Network and organizer of the first Earth Day 1970.

If he's open to new ideas and willing to actually read the science in context (versus say, Bjorn Lomborg, Chris Horner, or any of the other Exxon - funded eco-chamber) then he'll make a fine adviser so long as the president actually has a use for scientific information.

Arthur Laffer (prominent economic adviser to President Reagan): In a New Hampshire Public Radio interview (10/19/11), and in «Economist Arthur Laffer proposes taxing pollution instead of income» (Vanderbilt Univ., 2/20/12), Laffer recommended a carbon tax with revenue used to cut income taxes, a swap that he argued would create jobs, improve economic output and reduce pollution.

A super PAC created by President Donald Trump's new national security adviser John Bolton was one of the earliest U.S. clients of the now - embattled data company Cambridge Analytica, which targeted voters to help boost Bolton's national security agenda, records show.