Joshua B. Bolten

George W. Bush Appoints All His Loyal Jews to Holocaust Council

Tzvee's Talmudic Blog (Free subscription) | 01/08/2009

W.'s last minute patronage plum appointments for loyal Jewish Republicans: The President intends to appoint the following individuals to be Members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council: Elliot Abrams, of Virginia, for a five-year term beginning 01/16/09; Joshua B. Bolten, of the District of Columbia, for a five-year term beginning 01/16/09; Alan I. Casden, of California, for the remainder...

Bold-faced names

Corrente (Free subscription) | 01/08/2009

Another thumb in the eye from Der Decider. The President [sic] intends to appoint the following individuals to be Members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council: Elliot Abrams , of Virginia, for a five-year term beginning 01/16/09; Joshua B. Bolten , of the District of Columbia, for a five-year term beginning 01/16/09; Alan I. Casden, of California, for the remainder of a five-year term expiring...

Bush Revealed as Humane

Bad Attitudes (Free subscription) | 01/02/2009

From a Washington Post interview with White House chief of staff Joshua B. Bolten: Bolten said another of his goals when he took over was to try to get the country to see the likable boss he and other aides saw in private, convinced that would boost Bush's popularity. “I failed miserably,” he conceded. “Maybe in the beginning of the sixth year of a presidency, that's a quixotic task....

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Bush aides pan tales of Cheney power

Raw Story (Free subscription) | 01/02/2009

White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten and national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley remember conferring with President Bush during the darkest days of the Iraq war, in 2005 and 2006, when violence was out of control. In daily 7 a.m. meetings in the Oval Office, Bush reviewed "blue sheets" detailing incidents involving U.S. soldiers; he would circle the casualty figures and press his...

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Two Advisers Reflect on Eight Years With Bush

Time (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009

Wash Post hears from both White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten and national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley.

Hanukkah -- Am Yisrael Chai

Jewish Current Issues (Free subscription) | 12/22/2008

In this handout image provided by American Friends of Lubavitch, (L-R) Rabbi Abraham Shemtov, White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten and Rabbis Levi Shemtov and Nachman Holtzberg acknowledge the estimated two thousand event participants, after lighting the National...

Detroit gets it's Christmas present - US $25 Billion repayable loan (Ho.Ho.Ho.) to get them through till about Superbowl time.

Postman Patel (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008

Today's New York Times reports that , frightened shitless by the November unemployment figures, Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have , with the Chairman of the Senate banking committee, Democrat Christopher J. Dodd, colluded with Joshua B. Bolten, President Bush’s chief of staff, after helpful chats with the unbiquitous Rahm Emanuel, Mr. Obama’s chief of staff...

A History of White House Spin

MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 08/14/2007

In yesterday's Washington Post, Peter Baker takes a look at an upcoming book by professor Martha Joynt Kumar, entitled, "Managing...

• A Modern History Of White House Spin - Vox Verax