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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.

Gus Vander Jagt

By Marc Ambinder
Jun 25 2007, 10:03 AM ET Comment

I missed the news that former Michigan congressman Guy Vander Jagt died last week at age 75.

As NRCC chair in the 70s, he hired and trained some of the best in the biz; he was in some ways the mentor to a large number of Republican operatives who are influential today, including:

Pollsters Ed Goeas, Brian Tringali, Dave Sackett. Bill McInturff, Glen Bolger, Linda DiVall and David Winston; media strategists Bill Greener, Jim Innocenzi, Rich Galen, Barrie Tron, Russ Schrieffer, Dan Mattoon, consultants Carlyle Gregory, Scott Cottington, Kenny Klinge, Sam Dawson , Jim Weber, Mark Maddox, John Maddox. Leigh Ann Pusey,Tom Hockaday, Ann McCord as well as ex-Sen. Spencer Abraham and NRCC chair Rep. Tom Cole.

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