It’s been around for 230 years, but only now is the U.S. government getting a hall of fame.
The wonky Government Executive plans to induct its first class Sept. 19, focusing not on America’s heroes but those who have affected how government works.
Included in the first class of the Government Hall of Fame are former President Theodore Roosevelt, former Clinton-era Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, Francis Perkins, the first woman Cabinet member, and astronauts Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins.
They will officially be unveiled at a Sept. 19 gala. …
- White House aide Stephen Miller, the architect of President Trump’s immigration agenda, turned 34 last week, and insiders believe that was the hook for unprompted critical stories a week earlier in the New York Times and the Washington Post. “He just had a birthday, and I think they wanted to mock his youth,” said one. …
We’re thrilled to introduce our fall 2019 #GUPolitics Fellows: @jwingateburks, @drjeffcolyer, @oliviaalair, @karentravers, & @stephanievalenc! pic.twitter.com/gmzWrqBxSH
— Georgetown Politics (@GUPolitics) August 21, 2019
- Some Washington big shots have been named fellows to the Institute of Politics and Public Service at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. Executive Director Mo Elleithee said they include ABC White House correspondent Karen Travers, former first lady Michele Obama’s spokeswoman Olivia Alair Dalton, Jonathan Burks, the former chief of staff to Speaker Paul Ryan, former Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer, and Stephanie Valencia, a former top Obama aide. …
