Margaret D. Tutwiler
Margaret DeBardeleben Tutwiler (born December 28, 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama), is the daughter of Temple Tutwiler II, and Margaret DeBardeleben Tutwiler,[1]
Tutwiler worked under James A. Baker III in George H. W. Bush’s failed bid for the 1976 presidential nomination.[2] In 1980, she was one of a team of relatively younger aides assembled by Baker to run Bush’s campaign for the presidential nomination.[3] When Bush lost the nomination to Ronald Reagan, Reagan tapped Baker to run his presidential campaign, and Baker brought Tutwiler with him to the campaign.[4] When Reagan won the presidency and Baker became White House Chief of Staff, Tutwiler asked to accompany him, saying, “Until we figure it out, can’t I just be your jack of all trades?”[5] Once they were ensconced in the White House, Tutwiler was trusted to return phone calls from members of congress, or the press, if Baker could not himself return the call.[6]
In January 1985, after Reagan won the 1984 election, he appointed Baker as Secretary of the Treasury, and Baker took his White House team, including Tutwiler, with him to the Treasury, where Tutwiler became Baker's chief political assistant, initially holding the position of Assistant Secretary For Public Affairs.[7]
In 1988, when Bush was elected President, Baker became Secretary of State, and Tutwiler became Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, serving from December 16, 2003 to June 30, 2004. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on December 9, 2003 to replace outgoing Under Secretary Charlotte Beers. Tutwiler was given the task of leading "the government's public-relations drive to build a favorable impression abroad." She had previously been Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from 1989 to 1992.
Tutwiler was Ambassador to Morocco from March 2001 until 2003. In July 2004, she began directing communications for NYSE Euronext. Her boss at the NYSE, John Thain, later brought her on board as head of communications at Merrill Lynch in December 2007 and then at CIT Group in August 2010.[8]
Tutwiler is a member of the board of directors of the International Republican Institute.[9]
References
- ^ "Welcome to the Alabama Academy of Honor". Archives.alabama.gov. Archived from the original on March 1, 2016. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
- ^ The Man Who Ran Washington by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, Doubleday, 2020, p. 107.
- ^ Id., at p. 107
- ^ Id., at p.123
- ^ Id. at p. 137
- ^ Id., at p. 161
- ^ Id. at p. 251
- ^ Henry, David (August 2, 2010). "CIT Group's Thain Hires Ex-Presidential Aide Tutwiler for Communications". Bloomberg. Retrieved September 23, 2011.
- ^ Profile Archived April 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, International Republican Institute website; accessed July 16, 2010.
External links
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- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Margaret Tutwiler Diaries at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University
- USC Center on Public Diplomacy Profile[permanent dead link]
- Interview in Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training.
- Profile in the Alabama Academy of Honor.
- Margaret Tutwiler's diaries from her time as State Department Spokesman and Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs under Secretary of State James Baker at Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University.
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