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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.

DNC Hires Bill Clinton Hand To Be Pol. Director

By Marc Ambinder
Feb 20 2009, 11:08 AM ET Comment

President Obama's Democratic National Committee is beginning to fill in its senior staff roster.  Among the top hires: Clyde Williams, a former senior adviser to the Clinton Foundation and before that, a deputy chief of staff in the Department of Agriculture.  Williams will be political director. His name will not be familiar to the larger Obama political world. He has a background in grassroots organizing, particularly with African Americans, as he was, in a way, former President Clinton's liaison to Harlem when the prez moved his office there after leaving office.  The DNC is close to announcing its communications director; today, several communication staffers hired during the Dean regime will turn in their keys, including the DNC's internet and research director.


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