Joel Kaplan

Joel Kaplan is the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy for U.S President George W. Bush. He is currently one of three Deputy Chiefs of Staff at the White House, along with Karl Rove, Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Planning, and Joe Hagin, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. He took over policy planning from Karl Rove on April 19, 2006, as part of a staff shake-up by Josh Bolten, the White House Chief of Staff. After his appointment Bolten's Jewish ancestry was noted. Image File history File links Kaplan. ... Image File history File links Kaplan. ... The presidential seal was used by president Hayes in 1880 and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States and former governor of Texas. ... The Deputy White House Chief of Staff is the top aide to the White House Chief of Staff, who is the senior aide to the President of the United States. ... Karl Rove Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) is an American political consultant, and is U.S. President George W. Bushs Deputy Chief of Staff, senior advisor and chief political strategist. ... Joe Hagin (born January 6, 1956) is the current Deputy White House Chief of Staff for President George W. Bush. ... Joshua B. Bolten Bolten is sworn in as White House Chief of Staff by his Deputy Joe Hagin; his predecessor Andrew Card watches on. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ...

Prior to his appointment as a White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Kaplan had served as Deputy Director of the Office of Management And Budget (OMB) from August 2003, serving under Josh Bolten in his capacity as Director of the OMB. He had previously been a Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff from the start of the Bush administration up to that point. Before 2001, Kaplan had worked as a policy advisor on George W. Bush's 2000 Presidential campaign. He had also clerked for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and Judge J. Michael Luttig. Kaplan is a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School, and has served for four years in the United States Marine Corps The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is a body within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP) which is tasked with coordinating United States Federal agencies. ... The Bush administration includes President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Bushs Cabinet, and other select officials and advisors. ... Antonin Gregory Scalia (born March 11, 1936) is an American jurist who has been a prominent conservative and originalist voice on the Supreme Court of the United States of America and one of the most outspoken advocates of textualism in statutory interpretation and original meaning in constitutional interpretation. ... J. Michael Luttig (born in Tyler, Texas, June 13, 1954) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, having been appointed to a newly created seat by President George H. W. Bush on April 23, 1991, and confirmed by the United States Senate on... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Harvard Law School (HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... United States Marine Corps seal The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the U.S. military. ...