Nice little article in Politico about Marvin who is going to be Pres. Obama's Trip Director

[beachmom]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16202.html

Marvin Nicholson, one of the more colorful characters on the Obama and Kerry presidential campaigns, is being named White House trip director, choreographing the president's minute-by-minute movements on Air Force One and on the road.

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Nicholson traveled the country as trip director for President-elect Obama and was the body guy for Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) during his White House bid.

The trip director is part road manager and part tour guide, with a heavy helping of protocol and problem-solving. He stays 10 feet, 10 hours and 10 days ahead of the president.

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The towering Nicholson met Kerry in a windsurfing shop and had caddied on Nantucket.

Between the campaigns, Nicholson was a special assistant in Kerry's Senate office, from November 2004 to January 2007.

Congratulations, Marvin!

[beachmom]

1. And a nice profile of another former Kerry staffer. God, the guy was born in 1981.

I feel really old!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/us/politics/05web-favreau.html

Name: Jonathan Favreau

Chosen for: Director of speechwriting

Would bring to the job: Five years of speechwriting experience, and the total trust of Mr. Obama. He helped write every major speech during the presidential race, and can recite some verbatim.

Is linked to Mr. Obama by: A chance encounter at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Mr. Favreau, then a speechwriter for Senator John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, was dispatched to interrupt Mr. Obama’s rehearsal of his convention speech to ask him to cut an overlapping line. (Mr. Favreau recalled that Mr. Obama looked at him “kind of confused — like, ‘Who is this kid?’ ”) With Mr. Obama’s election to the Senate, Mr. Favreau was hired as a member of his staff, and he has been his speechwriter ever since. The two men are also linked by a fierce Red Sox (Mr. Favreau)-White Sox (Mr. Obama) rivalry.

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Used to work as: A press assistant in Mr. Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2003; he was promoted to speechwriter that November. In college, he interned in Mr. Kerry’s office. He was the opinion editor on his college newspaper and spent his summers during high school as a telemarketer, selling newspapers.

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Biography: Born June 2, 1981, in Winchester, Mass. ... grew up in North Reading, Mass. ...degree in political science from the College of the Holy Cross in 2003. ... just bought his first condominium, sandwiched between Dupont and the U Street corridor in Washington.