Washinton's 60 Sizzlingist Power Couples (You wondered about Nora O'Donnell.& David Gregory?)

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Washinton's 60 Sizzlingist Power Couples (You wondered about Nora O'Donnell.& David Gregory?)

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Washington's 60 Sizzlingist Power Couples
by Nick Baumann and Oliver Hadock

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Ken Pollack Middle East scholar, Brookings Institution
Andrea Koppel congressional correspondent, CNN
He�s a former CIA officer who ran the National Security Council�s Persian Gulf affairs division under President
Threatening Storm, about the security threat posed by Saddam Hussein, was crucial in persuading many
She�s Ted Koppel�s daughter. The couple met in 1999 when he was a source for a story she was reporting

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Geoff Tracy owner, Chef Geoff�s restaurant
Norah O�Donnell chief Washington correspondent, MSNBC
He�s a power-chef whose restaurant hosted Scooter Libby the night before his conviction. She was recently named by Washingtonian
magazine as one of D.C.�s 100 most powerful women. The couple is a fixture on the Washington social scene.

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David Gregory chief White House correspondent, NBC News
Beth Wilkinson general counsel, Fannie Mae<[br />The two met when Gregory, then a field reporter for NBC, was covering the Timothy McVeigh trial, for which she was a government prosecutor.
Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, with whom she worked at Latham & Watkins, attended their son�s baby shower.

Tim Russert host, NBC�s Meet the Press
Maureen Orth special correspondent, Vanity Fair
His testimony during the Scooter Libby trial was crucial to the prosecution�s case. She covers pop culture
recent book is The Importance of Being Famous: Behind the Scenes of the Celebrity-Industrial Complex.

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Philip Perry former general counsel, Department of Homeland Security
Elizabeth Cheney former deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs
At DHS, he blocked measures that would have required the chemical industry to safeguard its plants against terrorism (see �Dick Cheney�s
Dangerous Son-in-Law,� Washington Monthly, March 2007). She�s Dick Cheney�s daughter, and one of her father�s many loyalists scattered
throughout the executive branch. Neither had relevant policy experience or training before they were appointed to their positio

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RobertKagan neoconservative author and cofounder,
Project for a New American Century (PNAC)
Victoria Nuland United States permanent representative, NATO
He�s been a vocal supporter of the Iraq War and recently wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post declaring the �Surge� to be working splendidly�without
mentioning that his brother, Fred, is the architect of the strategy. Prior to joining NATO, Victoria worked in the office of the vice president.

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Ron Brownstein political columnist, Los Angeles Times
Eileen McMenamin communications director, Sen. John McCain, (R-Ariz.)
In an April 2005 L.A. Times column, he touted a potential third-party presidential run by McCain. Three weeks later the couple was married. Times editors
subsequently banned him from covering the senator, but the paper recently announced that he�ll write a weekly political column for the op-ed page�
steering clear of McCain. He was once married to Nina Easton (see page 50), who, like him, now has a spouse who works for McCain.

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Pollack Middle East scholar, Brookings Institution
Andrea Koppel congressional correspondent, CNN
He�s a former CIA officer who ran the National Security Council�s Persian Gulf affairs division under President Clinton. His 2002 book, The
Threatening Storm, about the security threat posed by Saddam Hussein, was crucial in persuading many liberals to support the Iraq War.
She�s Ted Koppel�s daughter. The couple met in 1999 when he was a source for a story she was reporting on Iraq.

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Look Who�s Hitched! The secret lives of Washington�s power couples

By T. A. Frank

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