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Maria Echaveste

President Clinton's Latino Appointees. Maria Echaveste is to the right of President Clinton
Personal data
Date of birthMay 31, 1954(age 57)
Place of birthTexas
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseChristopher Edley, Jr.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff
In officeMay, 1998 - January, 2001
Served with John Podesta and Steve Ricchetti
PresidentBill Clinton
Succeeded byJoshua Bolten
Preceded bySylvia Mathews
13th Assistant to the President for Public Liaison
In officeMay, 1997 - May, 1998
PresidentBill Clinton
Succeeded byMinyon Moore
Preceded byAlexis Herman

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Maria Echaveste (born May 31, 1954), is a former U.S. presidential advisor to Bill Clinton and White House Deputy Chief of Staff under the second Clinton administration. She is one of the highest-ranking Latinas to have served in a presidential administration. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a co-founder of the Nueva Vista Group, a policy, legislative strategy and advocacy group working with non-profit and corporate clients.

Maria Echaveste Video

11/10/08: What Republicans should do to bring Latino voters back into the fold. NEWSWEEK talks to former Clinton advisor Maria Echaveste (Reporter: Suzanne Smalley; Producer/Camera: Lee Wang, Ira Spitzer; Editor: Lee Wang).
2.52 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Zócalo and the Center for American Progress Action Fund hosted three former Clinton administration officials experienced in making the switch from Republican to Democrat in DC—former Deputy Secretary of Defense Rudy deLeon, former Deputy Chief of Staff Maria Echaveste, and former Deputy Assistant to the President John Emerson—for a discussion on the politics of presidential transitions. Here, along with moderator Eric Garcetti, they wonder why no one has been named as Energy Secretary, and explain how decisions are made in the White House.
6.38 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Highlights of Futures Forum presentations on immigration; featuring Tamar Jacoby, Maria Echaveste, and Rafael Fernandez de Castro
6.48 min. | 3.75 user rating		 Commentary on the US presidential elections from Christopher Edley, Dean of UC Berkeley School of Law; Maria Echaveste, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff; participants in the Forum
5.90 min. | 5.0 user rating		 11/10/08: Former Clinton advisor Maria Echaveste on what Obama's election means for the United States' global standing (Reporter: Suzanne Smalley; Producer/Camera: Lee Wang, Ira Spitzer; Editor: Lee Wang).
1.75 min. | 5.0 user rating
Stephen Goldsmith, director of the Innovations in American Government Awards, and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, chair of the National Selection Committee, offer opening remarks at the 2009 Innovations in American Government Awards finalist presentations in May 2009.
3.08 min. | 0 user rating		 Danny Vargas, María Echaveste, Juan Carlos Hidalgo and Lorena Chambers discuss whether or not the Obama administration is still planning to move forward with comprehensive immigration reform.
3.47 min. | 2.33 user rating		 Danny Vargas, and María Echaveste, discuss the health care reform ongoing debate, and the election of Scott Brown to the Senate.
4.32 min. | 0 user rating		 Danny Vargas, María Echaveste, Juan Carlos Hidalgo and Lorena Chambers debate on whether President Obama is headed on the right track and discuss which changes need to take place. We lost one senate seat. We still have 59
4.50 min. | 0 user rating		 Watch President Clinton's critically acclaimed lame-duck video, in which a film crew documented how he spent his final days in office. From the 2000 White House Correspondents Dinner.
5.88 min. | 5.0 user rating

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Politico (blog)--Kagan wrote in an e-mail sent to deputy chief of Staff -Maria Echaveste- and copied to three other senior aides. “We have many different initiatives that ... - Date : Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:22:24 GMT+00:00

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