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Dan Bartlett is executive vice president of corporate affairs for Walmart. He is responsible for government relations and public policy, corporate communications, philanthropy, and the company’s social responsibility and sustainability initiatives. Before joining Walmart, Dan was president and CEO of the U.S. division of Hill+Knowlton Strategies, where he served as a strategic advisor to business leaders representing key sectors of the American and global economy. Prior to Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Dan served as president and CEO of Public Strategies, Inc. Previously, he served in several high-ranking positions at the White House, completing his service as counselor to President George W. Bush in July 2007. As one of President Bush’s most trusted advisors, he was responsible for all aspects of communications for the president and his administration, including the White House press office, speechwriting and office of communications. Dan also played key roles in George W. Bush’s presidential and Texas gubernatorial campaigns. Dan is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and serves on the advisory board of UT Austin’s College of Communication. He also is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs and a fellow of the school’s Center for Politics and Governance. abc white house reporter geoff morrell went to dod to be spokes for bob gates (pal of bob barnett) offered leadership gig and H&K, run by Dan Bartlett (also job offer from Podesta tony gp) ended up at BP in time for oil spill; recruited by purple strat guy dick kiel (WH rept bloomberg)alex cast cnn this town 253==

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Dan Bartlett is president and chief executive of the public relations firm <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Public_Strategies,_Inc." title="Public Strategies, Inc.">Public Strategies, Inc.</a> He joined the firm in November 2007 as a senior strategist. Bartlett "provides counsel to the firm's largest accounts in key industries such as finance, telecommunications and defense. In addition, drawing on his years of foreign policy experience while serving in the White House, he has directed the firm’s international growth, providing advice to leading multi-national firms and global institutions." Bartlett is also an on-air political analyst for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> News and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Texas. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Dan_Bartlett#cite_note-0">[1]</a>

On January 5, 2005, President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">George W. Bush</a> named Bartlett Counselor to the President <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/01/20050105-5.html">[1]</a>. Bartlett announced his resignation on June 1, 2007. "Bartlett joins several top <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration" title="Bush administration">Bush administration</a> officials, including <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sara_Taylor" title="Sara Taylor">Sara Taylor</a>, the White House political director, and deputy national security advisers <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/J.D.Crouch" title="J.D. Crouch" class="mw-redirect">J.D. Crouch</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Meghan_O%27Sullivan" title="Meghan O'Sullivan" class="mw-redirect">Meghan O'Sullivan</a>, all of whom departed" in May 2007. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aKN7U5Z1rCvg&refer=home">[2]</a>

Bartlett was serving as Bush's Director of Communications "[w]hen Bush's valued counselor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Karen_P._Hughes" title="Karen P. Hughes">Karen P. Hughes</a> left the White House, young Bartlett got her office -- and the responsibility for keeping the administration 'on message'." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/administration/whbriefing/whoswho.html">[3]</a>

According to his White House biography, Bartlett oversaw "the White House Press Office, Office of Media Affairs, Communications, Speechwriting, and Global Communications. Prior to that, he was principal deputy to Karen Hughes, Counselor to the President. Before joining the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_Administration" title="Bush Administration" class="mw-redirect">Bush Administration</a>, Dan Bartlett served as a senior spokesman and the Director of Rapid Response for the Bush for President campaign in Austin, Texas. He has served President Bush since 1993, working on both successful campaigns for Governor of Texas. From 1994 to 1998, Bartlett worked in the Governor's Office as Deputy to the Policy Director. During the 1998 re-election campaign, he served as Issues Director. Before joining President Bush, Mr. Bartlett worked for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Karl_Rove_and_Associates" title="Karl Rove and Associates" class="mw-redirect">Karl Rove and Associates</a>, an Austin-based political consulting firm. He earned his bachelors degree in political science from the University of Texas at Austin." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.results.gov/leadership/bio_31.html">[4]</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/bartlett-bio.html">[5]</a>

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<h3>References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Dan_Bartlett#cite_ref-0">↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.holmesreport.com/fullstory.cfm?edit_id=10215&typeid=1&nlid=167">Bush White House Veteran Bartlett Named CEO at Public Strategies</a>," The Holmes Report (sub req'd), March 9, 2009.</li>

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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20030624.html">White House Interactive</a>: "Ask the White House"</li>

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<li>Sam Gwynne, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.texasmonthly.com/mag/issues/2003-11-01/feature.php">Weapon of Mass Communication</a>," Texas Monthly, November 2003.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/administration/whbriefing/whoswho.html">Who's Who in the White House</a>, updated February 16, 2004.</li>

<li>Edwin Chen and Roger Runningen, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aKN7U5Z1rCvg&refer=home">"Bartlett, Senior Bush Aide, to Leave Administration (Update5),"</a> Bloomberg News, June 1, 2007.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thinkprogress.org/the-architects-where-are-they-now/">"The Architects of War: Where Are They Now?"</a> Think Progress, July 2007.</li>

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<h2>Members</h2>

The members of the White House Iraq Group include: <a class="external autonumber" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Iraq_Group#endnote_WashPost">[8]</a><a class="external autonumber" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Iraq_Group#endnote_Hubris">[9]</a><a class="external autonumber" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Iraq_Group#endnote_CounterPunch">[10]</a>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Hughes" title="Karen Hughes">Karen Hughes</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Matalin" title="Mary Matalin">Mary Matalin</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Card" title="Andrew Card">Andrew Card</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Bartlett" title="Dan Bartlett">Dan Bartlett</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Wilkinson%28U.S.politician%29" title="Jim Wilkinson (U.S. politician)" class="mw-redirect">James R. Wilkinson</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_E._Calio" title="Nicholas E. Calio" class="mw-redirect">Nicholas E. Calio</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice" title="Condoleezza Rice">Condoleezza Rice</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hadley" title="Stephen Hadley">Stephen Hadley</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Libby" title="Lewis Libby" class="mw-redirect">I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gerson" title="Michael Gerson">Michael Gerson</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendon_Group" title="Rendon Group">Rendon Group</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari_Fleischer" title="Ari Fleischer">Ari Fleischer</a></li>

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<h2>Response to Yellowcake Forgery Issue</h2>

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Dan Bartlett served President George W. Bush as Counselor to the President. In that capacity, Bartlett was responsible for all aspects of President Bush's strategic communications planning and the formulation of policy and implementation of the President's agenda. He also oversaw the White House Press Office and the Offices of Communications, Media Affairs, and Speechwriting.

Prior to that, he was Assistant to the President for Communications and White House Communications Director. Before being named Communications Director, he was Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy to then Counselor to the President, Karen Hughes.

Before joining the Bush Administration, Dan Bartlett served as a senior spokesman and Director of Rapid Response for the Bush for President campaign in Austin, Texas. He has served President Bush since 1993, working on both successful campaigns for Governor of Texas. From 1994 to 1998, Bartlett worked in the Governor's Office as Deputy to the Policy Director. During the 1998 re-election campaign, he served as Issues Director. Before joining President Bush, Mr. Bartlett worked for Karl Rove and Company, an Austin-based political consulting firm. He has served the President for over ten years.

He earned his bachelors degree in political science from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Dan Bartlett joining Public Strategies

By: Mike Allen

October 28, 2007 04:46 PM EDT

Dan Bartlett, former counselor to President Bush, plans to announce Monday that he is moving to Texas to join Public Strategies Inc., one of the nation's best-connected public affairs firms, according to Republican sources.

The move reunites Bartlett with Mark McKinnon, the firm’s vice chairman, who directed the advertising efforts for Bush’s 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns.

Public Strategies specializes in crisis communications, public opinion, legislative strategy and complicated corporate scenarios like mergers.

Bartlett, 36, will be a senior strategist for the firm beginning Nov. 5, the sources said. He will be based out of the firm’s headquarters in Austin, where he helped George W. Bush win the presidency during the grueling campaign of 2000.

When Bartlett left the White House in July, he had worked for Bush for 14 years without a break — beginning in 1993, when at age 22 he joined the future president’s first campaign for Texas governor.

Public Strategies has an aggressive, well-stocked Washington operation and a growing New York office. The firm is bipartisan and has attracted Clinton administration veterans and former Democratic officials from Capitol Hill.

At the White House, Bartlett had a vast portfolio that included press, communications and speechwriting. But his most important job was serving as one of the president’s few confidantes — arguably as close to him as anyone in the White House short of first lady Laura Bush.

Before becoming Bush’s second counselor, succeeding Karen Hughes, Bartlett was assistant to the president for communications and White House communications director. At Bush-Cheney headquarters in Austin, he had been a senior spokesman and the director of rapid response, taking high-stakes press calls that no one else wanted to.

After Bush’s first gubernatorial campaign, Bartlett joined the governor’s office and later was issues director of the reelection campaign. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s in political science, he worked for the former Karl Rove and Co., the political consulting firm that helped launch this presidency.

Since leaving the White House, Bartlett has offered himself through the Leading Authorities Inc. speakers’ bureau. He recently received a flurry of attention for his blunt assessment of the current crop of Republican president candidates. His job search has been guided by Washington superlawyer Robert B. Barnett of Williams & Connolly.

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Washington Post reporter Barton Gelman's book on Dick Cheney is embargoed until Tuesday, although two excerpts have run in thePost on Sunday and Monday. But the publisher is keeping the rest of the book under wraps for a while.

Here is a gem from a still embargoed portion of the book (I obtained my copy through someone other than the publisher, and as such did not break their embargo): According to the book, Cheney turned down a request from President Bush to take charge of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, shortly after the Katrina made landfall on August 29, 2005.

Gellman writes that Cheney simply turned down the president -- something then-presidential counselor Dan Bartlett apparently remains unhappy about until present day.

From the book:

Days after the storm had passed, when he finally returned to Washington from Crawford, Bush assembled his senior staff in the Oval Office. He was going to set up a cabinet-level task force, he said.

"I asked Dick if he'd be interested in spearheading this," Bush announced, "Let's just say I didn't get the most positive response." Bush nodded ironically toward the vice president, putting on a show for the others: Card, Rove, Bartlett, Condi Rice. His expression, the tone of voice, had a hint of edge. Can you believe this guy?

Anyone who had face time with Bush said he was smarter than the public believed, and meaner. He spared Cheney the thunderbolts -- Rove got the worst of them, when Bush was in a mood to yell -- but now and then aides saw the president give Cheney the back of his hand.

"Will you at least go do a fact-finding trip for us?" Bush said.

"That'll probably be the extent of it, Mr. President, unless you order otherwise," Cheney replied. He was the Cheshire Cat inverted, only the smile dissolving, the rest of him still in the chair.

As well as he knew the two of them, Bartlett had to fight an impulse to roll his eyes. Katrina was shaping up as a true catastrophe. New Orleans was four-fifths under water, and the Gulf Coast had suffered grievous losses of life and property. The leisurely pace of federal action was not doing a bit of good for Bush. "Cheney wanted nothing to do with it," Bartlett said. Looking back on that moment, the president's counselor remained of two minds:

Cheney was the Master of Disaster, one of the government's most capable emergency managers. "It would send a powerful signal of our level of concern" to put the vice president in charge, Bartlett said. Eventually, though, Bartlett came to see Cheney's demurral "quite frankly as pretty good judgment." Cheney "doesn't do touchy-feely," Bartlett said, "Understanding what people's problems are and showing compassion -- that is an important part of the job of being the representative of he president... He was not going to go down there and hug babies."

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Of course, there always stood the possibility that the vice president believed that the hurricane and its high winds were in their last throes.