In the post-9/11 world, this isn't just good mannered, good government; it's a national security responsibility
White House puts on security exercise Jan 13, 2009
This is not intended as the administration's attempt to dictate what the next administration does
Bush, Obama aides to play war games Dec 23, 2008
This is the first wartime transition in 40 years, and it's probably the first transition in a couple of centuries in which our homeland itself has been under threat
Bush, Obama aides to play war games Dec 23, 2008
Joshua Brewster Bolten (born August 16, 1954) was the White House Chief of Staff serving U.S. President George W. Bush. Bolten replaced Andrew Card on April 14, 2006.
Bolten's father, Seymour, worked for the CIA and his mother, Analouise, taught world history at George Washington University. He graduated from St. Albans School, and served on the school's board until 2007.
At Princeton University, he studied in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and served as class president and president of The Ivy Club. He graduated in 1976. He graduated from Stanford Law School in 1980 and served as an editor of the law review.