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irman. In 2010, as foreign policy advisor to now-Vice President Biden, McKeon was the Obama administration's point per

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ng spot at the Convention, in Charlotte, the night before the President's speech—a spot usually reserved for the Vice-President. Joe EFTA00712756 Biden was bumped to the following night, in the slot immediately before Obama. The reconciliation began in earnest late last summer. Patrick Gaspard, the

tightly controlled national security matters from the White House. Because his power is so outsized, we have not included him -- or Vice President Joe Biden, the resident devil's advocate whose occasional verbal missteps belie his deep international experience -- on our list of the 50 Democrats who have

uring his 2000 presidential bid (a role immortalized by the made-for-TV movie Recount), where he became close friends with fellow Gore campaigners Philippe Reines and Andrew Shapiro, now both in top roles at the State Department, as well as Rajiv Shah, the current USAID administrator. Bash went on to be minor

Welch did at the Army- McCarthy hearings, 'Have you no sense of decency?' ... But instead of channeling his inner Joe Welch, Mueller was channeling Joe Friday: `Just the facts, ma'am." -- "So this is why Mueller didn't want to testify," writes Dana Milbank: "Republican lawmakers eviscerated him, a

stribution conspiracy, then burying their bodies in his yard in Otisville in Orange County, according to court records." Page 16923 EFTA00046434 Joe Biden speaks Wednesday at a candidate forum at the NAACP National Convention in Detroit. (Carlos Osorio/AP) 2020 WATCH: -- Former vice president Joe Bid

Chelsea Janes and David Weigel report: "On Wednesday, asked by NAACP panel moderator April Ryan if his views [on mass incarceration] have evolved, Biden said the focus of criminal justice needed to shift from `incarceration to rehabilitation' — a solution that [Sen. Cory] Booker, speaking to reporter

gh that some Clinton advisers were convinced Warren would be the best pick. ... In a memo to Clinton written shortly after the August meeting, ... Philippe Reines, a longtime adviser, concluded of Warren: 'If a crystal ball said she wouldn't antagonize you for four years, it's hard to argue she isn't the most

anages a few pages of a mystery, but mostly she sleeps, without any pills, often right through landing. “If she couldn’t sleep most of the way,” says Philippe Reines, her longtime press secretary, “she wouldn’t be able to function.” Some of her best road stories involve Holbrooke, her close friend, a maestro of d

to different parts of the party. The nearer-term options are far-fetched. When Bob Woodward said on CNN last fall that Hillary’s switching jobs with Joe Biden was “on the table,” the reaction inside both the White House and State Department was to scoff. Neither has an incentive to switch. With the Iraq por

ion inside both the White House and State Department was to scoff. Neither has an incentive to switch. With the Iraq portfolio already in his pocket, Biden gets plenty of foreign-policy action. His bigger concern is staying on good terms with Hillary. In late 2009, he worried that their long and friendly