White House Press Secretary
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2003-present: Scott McClellan |
The White House Press Secretary is a senior White House official with a rank one step below Cabinet level. The Press Secretary is the primary spokesperson for the Administration.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities center on collecting information about what is happening inside the Administration and around the world, and getting that information to the media in a timely and accurate fashion. The information includes things like a summary of the President's schedule for the day, who the President has seen, called, or had interactions with, and disseminating the official position of the Administration on the news of the day.
The Press Secretary traditionally also fields questions from the press corps in briefings and press conferences, which are generally televised and "press gaggles", which are on the record briefings where no video is allowed, but transcripts are made available.
External links and references
- Bush administration Press Briefings (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/briefings/) (by date)
- Clinton administration Press Briefings (http://www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org/) (use search box in lower left corner)
- 2001 Presidential Transition report on the duties of the Press Secretary (http://www.whitehouse2001.org/files/press/Press-OD.PDF)
- Google's White House Press Secretary news (http://news.google.com/news?q=%22White+House+Press+Secretary%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&sa=N&tab=nn)
- Images (http://images.google.com/images?q=%22White+House+Press+Secretary%22&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&start=0&sa=N) via Google