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Jarrett Named White House Senior Adviser

November 14, 2008 8:43 PM

An Obama campaign source tells ABC News that close Obama family friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett has been named Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Relations and Public Liaison.

Jarrett is a former chairman of the board of the Chicago Stock Exchange, and was director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and has served as an executive of The Habitat Company. She first met Barack Obama when she was in the midst of hiring Michelle in 1991.

- jpt

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Ah, The Chicago Machine at its finest. Next Tim Daley. Chicago politics gets nationalized.

Posted by: Kyle | Nov 14, 2008 9:22:34 PM

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