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Events with high posterior probability

Tom Roeser	He remained in this position with Quaker Oats until 1969 when he was recruited by the Nixon administration as an assistant to the United States Secretary of Commerce to begin a new federal program involving aid to minority business enterprise.
Grantland Johnson	Shortly after Bill Clinton was elected President of the United States in 1992, Johnson began to pursue a position in the President's administration.
Frederick Hauck	In August 1986, Captain Hauck was appointed NASA Associate Administrator for External Relations, the policy advisor to the NASA Administrator for congressional, public, international, inter-governmental, and educational affairs.
Robert B. Carleson	In 1973, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Caspar Weinberger named Carleson as U. S. Commissioner of Welfare.
Jeb Stuart Magruder	In March, 1973, he began a job as Director of Policy Planning with the United States Department of Commerce, but had to resign it soon afterwards, since Watergate began to become increasingly publicized after disclosures of perjury which had occurred during the original Watergate trial, in a letter to the Washington Star from Watergate burglar James McCord.
Kathy Augustine	In January 2004, White House officials advised her that she was a finalist to become Treasurer of the United States, however Anna Escobedo Cabral was subsequently nominated and confirmed as Treasurer.
Alec Ross (innovator)	Alec Ross (born November 30, 1971) was Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the duration of her term as Secretary of State, a role created for him that blends technology with diplomacy.
Steve Preston	With less than nine months left in his Administration, President Bush nominated Preston to be HUD Secretary on April 18, 2008.
Frank Minis Johnson	In 1977 President Carter and Attorney General Griffin Bell asked Johnson to become FBI Director when Director Clarence M. Kelley stepped down.
Jeh Johnson	In 1998, Johnson was appointed General Counsel of the Air Force by President Bill Clinton after confirmation by the U. S. Senate.
Lisa P. Jackson	In 2006, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine appointed Jackson the state's Commissioner of Environmental Protection.
Kerry Pettingill	On January 6, 2011, Oklahoma Secretary of Safety and Security Michael C. Thompson (who was dual-hatted as Commissioner of the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety) announced that he had selected Pettingill to succeed outgoing Van M. Guillotte as Chief of the Highway Patrol.
George Hugo Boldt	On October 22, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon appointed him chairman of the Pay Board, an agency established within the Executive Office under the Economic Stabilization Program.
Aneesh Chopra	He served in this position until 2009 when he was selected by President Barack Obama to be the first'' Chief Technology Officer'' for the White House.
Nelson Diaz (lawyer)	Diaz served as a special assistant to Vice President Walter Mondale on a White House Fellowship in 1977.
Kenneth Bacon	In 1997 Bacon was retained in his post by Perry's successor at the Defense Department, William Cohen.
Steve Hanke	In 1981, Hanke was appointed a senior economist with the President's Council of Economic Advisers, where his responsibilities included the Reagan White House's water portfolio.
Ralph Flanders	In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce, Daniel Roper, appointed Flanders to the Business Advisory Council, which was created to provide input to the administration on matters affecting business.
Heather Higginbottom	On January 7, 2011, President Obama nominated Higginbottom to the position of Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Rick Barton (diplomat)	Secretary of State Hillary Clinton selected Barton to serve as Assistant Secretary as the first head of the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO), and he was confirmed by the U. S. Senate in March 2012.
Chester Bowles	He was appointed by President Roosevelt in 1943 as administrator of the Office of Price Administration, and also served on the federal boards for War Production and Petroleum.
Tom Ridge	Ridge served as Governor until his resignation to become the Director of Homeland Security in 2001.
Dick Cheney	With the new Democratic administration under President Bill Clinton in January 1993, Cheney left the Department of Defense and joined the American Enterprise Institute.
Virginia A. Seitz	On August 4, 2010, National Public Radio reported that Seitz was the leading candidate to serve as the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the United States Department of Justice.
Natalie Shirley	On February 14, 2007, following the resignation of Kathy Taylor to run for Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Governor of Oklahoma Brad Henry appointed Shirley as his second Secretary of Commerce and Tourism.
Jacqueline E. Schafer	In September 2002, she joined the United States Agency for International Development as Deputy Assistant Administrator of USAID's Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade.
Robert M. McDowell	Robert M. McDowell was first appointed to a seat on the Federal Communications Commission by U. S. President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the Senate in 2006.
Neil Goldschmidt	He was appointed U. S. Secretary of Transportation by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 ; in that capacity he worked to revive the ailing automobile industry and to deregulate several industries.
Thomas Braden	Later, Joan Braden worked as coordinator of consumer affairs in the State Department, a position created for her in 1976 while her friend Henry Kissinger was secretary of state.
Richard T. McCormack	He left the Executive Office of the President in 1971, but remained a consultant to the White House Council on International Economic Policy.
Dow Constantine	Constantine announced his candidacy for King County Executive on February 16, 2009 to replace Ron Sims who was appointed the United States Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Antonio Carpio	In 1992, he joined the administration of President Fidel Ramos as Chief Presidential Legal Counsel of the Office of the President.
Melvin Laird	After a brief absence Laird returned to the Nixon administration in June 1973 as counselor to the president for domestic affairs, concerning himself mainly with legislative issues.
Edward Hidalgo	In 1972 he left the firm to resume government service as Special Assistant for Economic Affairs to the Director of the US Information Agency.
Richard Cordray	On January 24, 2013, President Barack Obama renominated Cordray to the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau position.
Martin Sorrell	In 1999 he was appointed by the Secretary of State for Education and Employment to serve on the Council for Excellence in Management and Leadership.
Tommy Sowers	In 2012, Sowers was appointed by President Barack Obama to be Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
Michael P. Jackson	As Deputy Secretary, Jackson was that Department's chief operating officer, with responsibility for day-to-day operations of an organization that, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, grew to a $ 68 billion annual budget supporting over 179,000 employees.
Rahm Emanuel	After the 2008 presidential election, President Barack Obama appointed Emanuel to serve as White House Chief of Staff.
Leon Panetta	On April 28, 2011, President Obama announced the nomination of Panetta as United States Secretary of Defense as a replacement for retiring Secretary Robert Gates.
Francis Collins	On July 8, 2009 President Barack Obama nominated him to the position of Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Richard T. Kennedy	In 1961, Kennedy was posted as a staff officer in the Office of the Assistant to United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
Phil Carter	The Washington Post reported in February 2009 that Carter was slated to be the new Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, following speculation on Pentagon blogs about his appointment.
Kathleen Sullivan (journalist)	Sullivan is a member of the National Advisory Board of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration -- a branch of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services -- to which she was appointed in 2003 by the U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson.
Kent Markus	In 2011, Markus became the deputy director of enforcement for the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Edwin Kneedler	Kneedler became Acting Solicitor General on January 20, 2009, with the expiration of the presidential term of George W. Bush.
Betty S. Murphy	In February 1975, when Murphy was sworn in to serve as the first woman to chair the National Labor Relations Board, President Gerald Ford said he chose her as'' the most qualified and best respected person'' for the job and not because of her sex.
Michael Morell	From July 1, 2011, to September 6, 2011, he served his first stint as acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency, following the appointment of Leon Panetta as secretary of defense.
Robert Stone (scientist)	On May 29, 1973, Stone was nominated by President Richard Nixon to the position of Director of the National Institutes of Health.
Steve Westly	After the election of President Barack Obama in November 2008, it was rumored that Westly was being considered for appointment as Secretary of Energy, though Dr. Steven Chu was ultimately named to that position.
Martin Manley	In 1993, the newly elected Bill Clinton nominated Manley as US Assistant Secretary of Labor.
Lawrence Summers	In 1995, he was promoted to Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under his long-time political mentor Robert Rubin.
Anton Gunn	On August 13, 2010, President Barack Obama appointed Gunn to serve under Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as Regional Director of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services for Region IV which includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
John Eisenhower	In 1975, he served President Gerald Ford as chairman of the President's Advisory Committee on Refugees.
Thomas A. Constantine	On their recommendation, he was appointed Administrator of the US Drug Enforcement Administration by President Bill Clinton on March 11, 1994.
Gerard C. Smith	In 1950 he returned to government service as a special assistant to Thomas E. Murray, a member of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Homer Martin Adkins	In 1948, Adkins was appointed administrator of the Arkansas Employment Security Division, the agency responsible for worker's unemployment insurance.
Bernard Soriano	In 2004, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger named Soriano to be the technology lead for the California Performance Review.
David E. Lilienthal	In January 1946, U. S. Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson asked Lilienthal to chair a five-member panel of consultants to a committee composed of himself and four others advising President Harry S. Truman and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes about the position of the United States at the United Nations on the new menace of nuclear weapon s.
Wendeen H. Eolis	Eolis served in the Pataki Administration (appointment 1995) as first assistant to the governor and senior advisor on'' special projects'' included personnel matters, rent deregulation, and gaming issues.
Stephen Early	After the election of 1932, Franklin Roosevelt asked him to serve as one of the three White House Secretaries, responsible for press relations.
William Cohen	On December 5, 1996, President Clinton announced his selection of Cohen as secretary of defense.
Hans Mark	In July 1998, he began work at The Pentagon upon President Clinton's nomination of him as Director of Defense Research and Engineering.
William Harding Jackson	Jackson had been recommended by former Secretary of the Navy, Admiral Sidney W. Souers who had served as'' Director Central Intelligence'' prior to the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947.
Benjamin H. Freedman	Freedman opposed the nomination of Anna M. Rosenberg to be Assistant Secretary of Defense in 1950.
James Comey	Comey was reportedly was chosen over finalist Lisa Monaco, who had overseen national security issues at the Justice Department during the attack on the U. S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012.
Roger Manno	In 2009, Manno was appointed to serve on the White House Task Force of State Legislators for Health Reform.
William Strauss	Strauss later worked at the U. S. Department of Energy and as a committee staffer for Senator Charles Percy, and in 1980 he became chief counsel and staff director of the Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Government Processes.
David Addington	Addington was also a special assistant for legislative affairs to President Ronald Reagan for one year in 1987, before becoming Reagan's deputy assistant.
Kal Penn	In early 2009, Penn was offered the position of Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement in the Obama administration, which he accepted.
Vint Cerf	In 2008 Cerf was a major contender to be designated the US's first Chief Technology Officer by President Barack Obama.
Dan Coats	In 2001, Coats was reportedly one of George W. Bush's top choices to be Defense Secretary, a job eventually given to Donald Rumsfeld, who had previously served as United States Secretary of Defense.
Joe Allbaugh	After the legal maneuverings played out with Bush prevailing, he named Allbaugh as his nominee to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency on January 4, 2001.
Jacqueline E. Schafer	On February 23, 1982, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Anne M. Gorsuch announced that she was appointing Schafer as Regional Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Region II, which contains New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U. S. Virgin Islands.
Ernest A. Gross	After the war, Gross rejoined the State Department, serving as Legal Adviser of the Department of State and as deputy to the Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas (Gen. John H. Hilldring, then, from 1947, Charles E. Saltzman).
David Plouffe	Plouffe was an outside senior advisor to Obama since the president's first day in office and was then appointed as a Senior Advisor to the President (inside the White House) in 2011 following the resignation of David Axelrod, who went on to start Obama's reelection campaign.
Heather Whitestone	Some of Whitestone's accomplishments include : Appointed by President Bush and confirmed by the US Senate to the National Council on Disability - Resigned in 2010.
Peter H. Daly	In 1995, Daly moved to the Office of the United States Secretary of the Treasury as a senior adviser.
Bob Perciasepe	Perciasepe was confirmed by the Senate on December 24, 2009, becoming the Agency's Deputy Administrator.
Mary McCarthy (CIA)	In 1998, Sandy Berger, then National Security Advisor for President Bill Clinton, appointed her as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs succeeding Rand Beers.
Randy Jayne	In 1977, Jayne left active military service to accept appointment by President Jimmy Carter as the Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the Executive Office of the President.
Donald Verrilli Jr.	In early 2009, Verrilli was appointed by Barack Obama to the position of Associate United States Deputy Attorney General within the U. S. Department of Justice.
Robert McFarlane	In 1982, Reagan appointed McFarlane as Deputy National Security Advisor responsible for the integration of the policy recommendations of the Departments of State, Treasury and Defense.
David Satcher	Eve Slater would later replace him as Assistant Secretary for Health in 2001.
William Howard Taft IV	In April 1976 Taft was appointed by President Gerald Ford to serve as general counsel of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Philip Taft	Taft worked for the Wisconsin Industrial Commission and the federal Resettlement Administration before taking a job as an associate economist at the Social Security Administration in 1936.
Stanley Fischer	He was appointed as Vice Chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve in December 2013 by the White House.
W. Don Ladd	In 1967 Ladd became an assistant to Orville L. Freeman, United States Secretary of Agriculture.
William M. Daley	On January 6, 2011 President Barack Obama named Daley as his next White House Chief of Staff, and he took office on January 13, 2011.
Michael Huffington	In 1986, President Ronald Reagan appointed Huffington as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy with responsibility for conventional arms control negotiations.
Howard Safir	Safir rejoined government service in 1994 when Mayor Giuliani asked him to serve as the New York City's 29th Fire Commissioner.
Kevin L. Ward	He would continue in that position until 1990 when he was promoted to second lieutenant and became the head of the Executive Security Division, which is responsible for providing security for the Governor of Oklahoma, the Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma, and their immediate families.
Joe Allbaugh	Allbaugh then became Bush's Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) beginning in February 2001.
Samantha Power	In January 2009 President Obama appointed Power to the National Security Council Staff, where she served as a Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director running the Office of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights.
Douglas J. Feith	At Harvard, Feith had studied under Professor Richard Pipes, who joined the Reagan administration's National Security Council in 1981 to help carry out a private intelligence project called Team B that Pipes and his students had conceived.
Cory Booker	In 2009 after Barack Obama became President of the United States, Booker was offered the leadership of the new White House Office of Urban Affairs.
Louis A. Johnson	After a series of conflicts with Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal over defense budget cutbacks, President Truman asked for Forrestal's resignation, replacing him with Johnson early in 1949.
Chai Feldblum	In March 2010, she was appointed to a position on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) by President Barack Obama, and in December 2010 she was confirmed to serve on the EEOC by the United States Senate.
James F. Goodrich	On September 9, 1981, President of the United States Ronald Reagan nominated Goodrich as Under Secretary of the Navy.
Robert Schliske	In 1963, Schliske moved to Cheyenne, where he worked for the State of Wyoming during the administration of Republican Governor Clifford P. Hansen, first as director of civil defense adult education and then as director of manpower development and training.