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Alexander, Lamar

Alexander is the former Governor of Tennessee and a former GOP presidential candidate.

Andrews, Scott

Andrews is the son-in-law of former Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., and a business partner of Marvin Bush, George W. Bush's brother.

Ashcroft, Sen. John, R-Mo.

The senator from Missouri was an early contender for the 2000 GOP nomination, but bowed out in favor of George W. Bush, whom he endorsed.

Baird, Terri Lacy

Baird is George W. Bush's former appointment director. She was recently appointed to the Texas Racing Committee. She chairs many community service events and is married to Jim Baird.

Baldridge, Emy Lou

Emy Lou Baldridge was presented the Distinguished Service Award by Texas first lady Laura Bush in March 1998. Baldridge established Texas Community Partners in 1996, which in turn established Rainbow Rooms and Adopt-a-Caseworker programs throughout Texas. They provided caseworkers a place to get needed items for their clients' children and families.

Bennett, William J. (Bill)

Bennett was secretary of education and chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under President Reagan.  He served as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President Bush. After leaving government service, Bennett co-founded Empower America, a conservative think tank, in 1993.  His co-founders were former Rep. Jack Kemp, former congressman and now lobbyist Vin Weber, and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick.

Berman, Dennis

Berman runs the copy machine/fax empire Denitech, and was a Team 100 fund-raiser for Bush's father when he ran for president.  He has been a major fund-raiser for the younger Bush throughout his career. Berman also recruited fund-raiser Laura S. Rowe to work for the Bush campaign in early 1999.  Rowe came under fire when the Houston Press revealed that she had been raising money for Bush's presidential bid out of a nonprofit organization, the Houston Children's Charity.

Betts, Roland

Betts, of the development firm Chelsea Piers Management, was a roommate of Bush at Yale University.

Boskin, Michael J.

Boskin served as chairman of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 to 1993. Boskin is now a fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor at Stanford University who specializes in fiscal, trade and regulatory policy. He's a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also an adviser to the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, and sits on the advisory board of the Congressional Budget Office.

Cheney, Richard B.

Richard B. Cheney was President Bush's defense secretary, and is now CEO of Halliburton Co., a $9 billion dollar oil-services firm based in Dallas. He is also a foreign policy adviser to the Bush presidential campaign. After a February 1999 meeting with Cheney in Austin, Bush told reporters, "Dick Cheney is a friend of mine. It's not the first time he has been down here. It won't be the last time he is down here. He is a person whose judgment I rely upon a lot." As defense secretary, Cheney directed the U.S. invasion of Panama and Operation Desert Storm, the Persian Gulf War.

In 1995, after a stint at the American Enterprise Institute, Cheney became the CEO of

Halliburton, which does business in at least 100 countries. In 1998, Business Week reported that Cheney had been "courting politicians and business leaders through the booming Caspian Sea region in an all-out effort to secure key political ties with Azerbaijan and Kazakstan. Accounting for the world's third-largest oil reserves, the region is Cheney's best hope to secure big contracts for a long time to come." Cheney has succeeded. Along with the heads of Chevron and Texaco Inc., Cheney sits on Kazakstan's Oil Advisory Board, which serves as a sounding board for the country's president.

As Halliburton President David J. Lesar told Business Week, "Dick gives us a level of access that I doubt anyone else in the oil sector can duplicate."

Cisneros, Jose

Cisneros is one of Texas' most well-known contemporary painters.  Born in Mexico, Cisneros later migrated to El Paso, Texas.  Laura Bush has made arts awareness a central theme to her mission as wife of the Governor, and several major figures in the Texas art world have slept at the mansion (see Lea and Margo).

Clements, Gov. William

Clements is the former governor of Texas who lost to Democrat Ann Richards in 1990.

Ellis, Alexander "Hap"

Cousin of George W. Bush, Ellis is active in the Republican Party in Massachusetts, where he lives.

Ellis, John

Another cousin of George W. Bush, Ellis is a former columnist for the Boston Globe and is handling exit polling for Fox News during the 2000 election.

Engler, Gov. John

Engler is the Republican governor of Michigan and a strong backer of George W. Bush's campaign. He suffered a major embarrassment when Sen. John McCain defeated the Texas governor in the Michigan primary.

Ensenat, Ambassador Donald

U.S. ambassador to the Asian country of Brunei, on the tip of Borneo, under President Bush, Ensenat was a roommate of George W. Bush when the two attended Yale as undergraduates. He is an attorney in New Orleans.

Evans, Donald

Evans is chairman of the Bush campaign's finance committee, overseeing the campaign's

astounding fund-raising operation. Evans is chief executive officer of Tom Brown Inc., an oil and gas company based in Midland, Texas. As reported by The Center for Public Integrity in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: The Buying of the President 2000 (Avon), Bush joined the company's

board as an outside director in 1989, receiving $12,000 a year, plus stock options, for attending several meetings and participating in conference calls. He also raised Evans' salary while he sat on the company's compensation board. After Bush was elected governor, he sold his Tom Brown holdings for a profit of $297,550. He appointed Evans to a seat on the University of Texas Board of Regents.

Evans, Jim and Betsy

Evans is a corporate attorney and right-wing talk-radio host. One of his clients, Brittan Communications International (of which Evans is general counsel), donates 2 percent of its gross income to charities'including a $25,000 check to Barbara Bush for the Houston READ Commission, a nonprofit organization that promotes literacy.

Forbes, Walter and Karen

Walter A. Forbes is a former chairman of Cendant Corp., a New York-based global provider of real estate, travel and direct-marketing-related consumer and business services. Forbes resigned as chairman under immense pressure in 1998 during an accounting scandal. Authorities are trying to determine the level of involvement by top executives in Cendant's accounting irregularities. Forbes has repaid nearly $2.3 million in travel- and entertainment-related expenses.

Forbes, Malclom "Steve" Jr.

Forbes ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 1996 and 2000. Although a frequent critic of George W. Bush during the 2000 primaries, Forbes gave $1,000 to Bush's gubernatorial campaign in 1994.

Forstmann, Theodore J.

Forstmann is a founding partner of Forstmann Little & Co. of New York, a leveraged-buyout firm. A strong advocate of school vouchers, Forstmann is founding chairman of the conservative think-tank Empower America.

Francis, James

Francis is chairman of the "Pioneers," the Bush campaign's collection of 180 fund-raisers, who each gave $100,000 or more.  A businessman from Dallas, Francis first got involved with the Bush family during George Bush's failed run for the Senate in 1970.  Francis later worked for the campaigns of Richard Nixon, Sens. Phil Gramm and Kay Bailey Hutchison, and former Republican Texas Gov. Bill Clements.  As governor, George W. Bush appointed Francis to chair the Texas Public Safety Commission.

Freeman, Brad

The longtime friend of George W. Bush has helped finance Bush's political career, giving $87,000 to Bush over the years.  A banker in Los Angeles, Freeman held a fund-raiser for Bush there in 1997 that brought in more than $500,000.

Goldsmith, Stephen

In 1999, Goldsmith ended his term as Indianapolis mayor, where he had earned the reputation among Republicans and Democrats as a public-policy innovator. He is among a group of reform-minded mayors from both parties, including Democrats John Norquist of Milwaukee, Richard Daley of Chicago, and former mayor Ed Rendell of Philadelphia; and Republicans Rudolph Guiliani of New York, Richard Riordan of Los Angeles, and Susan Golding of San Diego. Goldsmith turned Indianapolis into a laboratory of market-based solutions for urban problems. A champion of privatizing government services, Goldsmith forced city agencies to cut their budgets to compete against private companies for city contracts. He also allowed religious organizations to provide government social programs in tough neighborhoods, and encouraged welfare mothers to enter the workforce.

Goldsmith met Bush in 1997 after writing the book The Twenty-First Century City, which described his approach to city problems, and giving lectures in Texas. Bush invited him to dinner, and they later talked occasionally about the role of conservative Republicans in helping the poor in inner cities.  One indication of Goldsmith's influence is that Bush chose Indianapolis as the place to give his �Duty of Hope� speech last July, a paean to the role of faith-based organizations in ameliorating social ills. Goldsmith is now with the law firm of Baker & Daniels in Indianapolis and lives part-time in Austin.

Hagel, Sen. Charles "Chuck"

Hagel, a Republican senator from Nebraska, was a national chairman for Sen. John McCain's 2000 presidential campaign.

Hernandez, Israel

Hernandez has been a staff aide to Governor Bush.

Heyne, Janet

Janet Heyne was a college friend of Laura Bush. The two were in the same sorority at Southern Methodist University and have maintained their close friendship.

Hill, Bill

Bill Hill is the District Attorney in Dallas.

Holland, Robert B. III

Holland is chief operating officer and general counsel for Triton Energy Ltd., an international gas and oil exploration company of which Thomas Hicks is chairman. A good friend and fishing buddy of George W. Bush, Holland was chairman of Jack Kemp's Texas campaign for the GOP presidential nomination in 1988.

Hubbard, Allan B.

Hubbard plays an informal role in recruiting policy advisers and arranging

meetings and telephone conferences between the governor and the presidential campaign's economic team. It was Hubbard, a Harvard Business School classmate of Bush, who introduced Lawrence Lindsey (the Bush campaign's chief economic adviser) to the governor in Austin in the summer of 1998.  Hubbard worked with Lindsey when Hubbard was Quayle's deputy chief of staff and Lindsey was at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Hubbard is the head of E&A Industries Inc., which owns several chemical manufacturing companies in Indianapolis.

He managed the 1988 presidential campaign of Republican Pierre S. �Pete� DuPont, was vice chairman of Dan Coats' successful 1990 Senate race in Indiana, and was chairman of the Indiana GOP.

Hubbard met his share of controversy while he served as executive director of the White House Council on Competitiveness. Watchdog groups and Capitol Hill Democrats accused Hubbard of violating federal law by working to change regulations that affected companies in which he was an investor. According to the Washington Post, in 1990 Hubbard pushed to relax rules on sulfide dioxide emissions at the same time he owned $18,000 in stock of PSI Resources Inc., a holding company that owns 15 utility companies in Indiana. PSI, then listed by the EPA as a large polluter, had been advocating the changes.

The council's actions to weaken emissions regulations also benefited World Wide Chemicals Inc., an Indiana company that makes chemicals that go into auto waxing and other car products. At the time, Hubbard owned a 50 percent stake in World Wide Chemicals. According to his financial disclosure form, as reported by the Associated Press in 1991, World Wide paid Hubbard $786,000 in dividends and nearly $1.6 million in 1989. Hill Democrats investigated Hubbard for possible conflicts of interest and violations of federal ethics rules and conducted hearings. In July 1992, the House voted to cut funding to the council. In the wake of the probes, Hubbard said he would donate his stock to charity, though he eventually put his holdings into a blind trust.

Huey, Mimi

Huey is a Dallas socialite active in community groups, chairing and organizing events with the governor's wife.

Idsal, Katharine Armstrong

Idsal was recently appointed by George W. Bush as a commissioner of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission.

Johnson, Gov. Gary E.

Johnson is the current governor of New Mexico.

Johnson, Johnny

John W. �Johnny� Johnson was recently appointed by George W. Bush to the Texas Transportation Commission.

Johnson, Terry

Johnson was Bush's roommate at Yale for three years.

Johnson, Robert Woods "Woody" IV

A scion of the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical empire, Johnson is chairman of the Johnson Company, a personal investment company in New York City. He is also chairman of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, to which he donated $10 million in 1994. Johnson is a longtime (and prolific) Republican donor. In 1988 he gave more than $100,000 to the Republicans in soft money; in 1992 he contributed $107,250 to the GOP's coffers in July alone. Between 1995 and 1998 his soft money contributions totaled $365,000, with $200,000 of that coming during the 1997-98 election cycle, making him the 12^th biggest soft dollar contributor from the state of New York during that cycle. In the 1996 presidential campaign, Johnson chaired the Dole/Kemp Committee for Economic Growth, a group of 2,000 business executives whose goals were to push for significant tax reductions and to elect Bob Dole and Jack Kemp. He has chaired fund-raisers for Dole and for the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Jordan, Robert W.

Jordan is a personal attorney for George W. Bush and a longtime friend. He works in Dallas at the law firm of Baker & Botts, LLP.

Kasich, Rep. John

Kasich is a Republican congressman from Ohio who chairs the House Budget Committee. He ran for the GOP presidential nomination briefly during the spring and summer of 1999 but pulled out to endorse George W. Bush. Kasich is rumored to be a possible Bush vice presidential pick.

Kinder, Anne

Kinder is a wealthy board member of the Texas Commission of the Arts, of which Laura Bush is co-chair.

Koch, Dorothy and Bobby

Dorothy is Governor Bush's younger sister and is married to Bobby Koch, who is a lobbyist for the California wine industry. The two live in Maryland and have been active fund raisers, helping to raise $2 million recently for Bush's campaign.

Langdale, Mark, Patty, Paul and Olivia

Bush appointed Mark Langdale, a successful Texas businessman, to chair the Texas Department of Economic Development last year.

Lea, Tom

Another contemporary artist invited to the Governor's Mansion, El Paso's Tom Lea was a World War II correspondent for Time magazine.  Born in 1907, Lea returned to painting full-time after almost twenty years of writing following the Second World War.

Lindsey heads the Bush campaign's economic team, and has recruited most of its other members. Considered more of a pragmatist than an ideologue, Lindsey worked on a plan that defines �compassionate conservatism� without alienating those who favor conventional Republican economic tenets of tax and spending cuts. He believes that tax cuts will raise productivity, and he has advocated across-the-board cuts in tax rates, softened with targeted breaks for children, charitable giving and educational saving. Lindsey committed GOP heresy by retaining capital gains taxes in the plan, but says that income-tax cuts at the top marginal rates will reap even bigger rewards. He also favors personal savings accounts for Social Security -- a position George W. Bush favors as well.

Margo, Adair

Margo is the owner of a prestigious El Paso art museum, and is one of several Texas art figures who have stayed overnight at the Governor's Mansion. She is a close friend of Laura Bush.

Miers, Harriett

Miers is a Dallas-based lawyer and chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission. The former president of the State Bar of Texas and Dallas City Council member has done legal work for Bush and his political committee.  As chair of the lottery commission, Miers came under fire when former commission executive director Lawrence Littwin sued the state's lottery operator, GTECH, for allegedly pressuring Miers to fire Littwin.  Littwin and his attorneys have suggested throughout the proceedings that GTECH was allowed to keep its state lottery contract in exchange for former Texas Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes' silence. Barnes, a former GTECH lobbyist, stated under oath that he helped George W. Bush enlist in the Texas Air National Guard as an alternative to going to Vietnam 31 years ago.

Oberwetter, Jim

Oberwetter is a longtime Bush family friend and adviser. He is the spokesman for Hunt Oil, one of Dallas's largest, most influential corporations. He was formerly President George Bush's campaign chairman.

O'Neill, Joseph and Jan

Longtime friends of Texas' first couple, the O'Neills introduced Laura Welch to George W. Bush. Joe O'Neill has known the governor since grade school.

Parvin, Landon

Parvin is a media consultant and a well-connected Washington, D.C. speechwriter.

Pataki, Gov. George

Pataki is the Republican governor of New York. He endorsed Bush's campaign and helped him in his decisive victory in New York on Super Tuesday.

Patterson, Richard North

Patterson is a popular mystery novelist.  In a recent piece for the San Francisco Chronicle (March 5), Patterson extolled the virtues of campaign finance reform, with particular emphasis on the need to ban all soft money.  Ironically, George W. Bush has been the only major presidential candidate who has not endorsed a total ban on soft money.

Rabin, Idelle

Gov. George W. Bush nominated Rabin to chair the Texas Commission of the Arts. She is a Dallas businesswoman. 

Racicot, Gov. Marc

Racicot is the governor of Montana and the Bush campaign's chairman for that state.

He helped Bush prepare for the 1999 Manchester, N.H., debate.

Reed, Ralph

Reed is the former executive director of the Christian Coalition. He left that organization in 1997 to pursue a political consulting career in Duluth, Ga., at Century Strategies. He is a key strategist to Bush's presidential campaign, and helped convince members of the religious right that Bush was not too moderate for them.

Rice, Condoleeza

Rice an unpaid foreign policy adviser to the Bush campaign who coordinates, along with Paul Wolfowitz of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, the foreign policy advising team.  She had been provost at Stanford University since 1993 and a professor of political science before that. She's a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. Between 1989 and 1991, she was a Russian and Eastern European affairs specialist at the National Security Council.

Rose, Edward "Rusty"

Rose was a general managing partner, along with George W. Bush and others, of the Texas Rangers baseball club until it was sold in 1998 to Thomas Hicks. Rose is a longtime associate of Richard Rainwater, a legendary Texas financier.

Schieffer, Tom

Schieffer was president of the Texas Rangers when George W. Bush and a consortium of investors bought the baseball club in 1989.

Shultz, George

George P. Shultz was secretary of state during the Reagan administration. He is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. In 1996, he was economic policy adviser to Bob Dole's presidential campaign. According to Securities and Exchange Commission filings, Shultz sits on the board of directors of Airtouch Communications Inc., Bechtel Group, Gilead Sciences Inc., Maxtor Corp., Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., and Charles Schwab Corp. He is also the chairman of J.P. Morgan's International Council.

Stapleton, Craig and Debbie

Craig is director of real estate at Marsh & McLennan in Greenwich, Conn. He is a longtime friend of the governor.  Stapleton and Bush first crossed paths while both were in college, and in 1971, Stapleton married Debbie Walker, whose father was Bush's great uncle. The families frequently vacation together, and in 1993, the Stapletons joined George and Barbara Bush on a luxury vessel for a Mediterranean cruise. Stapleton was also part of the group of businessmen who purchased the Texas Rangers in 1989 with George W. Bush, investing $3 million in the team. Though traditionally a Democrat, Stapleton worked for George Bush in all three of his presidential campaigns and has been a key fund-raiser for the younger Bush as well. In 1998 he helped organize fund-raisers in the Northeast that brought in $250,000 for George W. Bush.

Tauke, Tom

Tauke is a former congressman from Iowa and a longtime friend of the governor. Bush had offered him the job as campaign manager, but he decided to stay on as senior vice president for governmental affairs of Bell Atlantic Corp.

Untermeyer, Chase

Houston businessman Chase Untermeyer was the White House chief of personnel under President Bush .  George W. Bush appointed him to the Texas State Board of Education in 1998.

Waldie, Shari

Waldie is Governor Bush's personal assistant.

Welch, Jenna

Jenna Welch is Laura Welch's mother.

Welch, Robert

Robert Welch is a cousin of Laura Bush.

White, Linda

White is the wife of former Texas Gov. Mark White.

Williams, Roger

Williams is the owner of Roger Williams Chrysler Plymouth Dodge in Weatherford, Texas.  Williams formerly owned Jack Williams Auto Mall in Fort Worth.  In 1996, he sold the dealership to raise money for his alma mater, Texas Christian University, where he chaired the Committee of 100, a group of donors who contributed to the school's athletic program. Six months later he bought the dealership in Weatherford, tripling its sales volume within a year. Williams still works with TCU, and is active in Republican Party politics. In 1998 he was a regional fund-raiser for George W. Bush's gubernatorial campaign, and Bush appointed him to the inaugural committee for his January 1999 inauguration ceremony.

Younger, Charles M.D.

Younger is an orthopedic surgeon in Midland, Texas, and a friend and jogging partner of George W. Bush. He has characterized Bush as "not the smartest guy in the world, but smart enough."

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