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   The President inaugurated on January 20th 2009 will select much of his own administration through a personnel office in the Transition Office, and continue throughout the administration in the usual ways.  Even so - now is the time to start if you wish to work in that administration.  There are countless unpaid positions in a campaign, and many that are compensated.  

     If you develop a reputation in the campaign structure - a reputation for hard work, personal commitment, availability and the other general qualities which make good employees, you may have an insider's track for an appointment.

     Candidates - and often their staffs - need information resources in every area of government.  If you have a particular skill in a particular area - make it known to the candidate and those running they campaign.  There are almost always appointments available in those areas in every government.  Expertise in a given subject area is a strong qualification.  If a chosen candidate bails out - his staff - and you if you if you are clever and want to go there - can move into the support of another Presidential candidate.

     If the new President in 2008 is a Republican, the power structure which selects patronage employees is already partially in place.  Filling all the appointed positions is a complex and tedious basis - it is easier to rely on those who have already done it - so left-over Bush staff and confidants will have some influence.   Local and regional appointees may will have substantial influence about appointments in his area. Do your research and figure out who is running what in your area of interest.

     If the new President in 2008 is a Democrat, eventually almost all of the appointed personnel will be replaced in the first year of the administration.  Otherwise the drill is the same in getting into the project early.  It is always research question - who really has influence when it comes to referring and selecting candidates for appointments.

     Review the other methods and suggestions for being appointed in other parts of the site.  All of them apply to the pre-inauguration period.  Those who are known to the candidate and the campaign structure on election day will generally have better access to appointments when the time comes.


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THE PROS - The McCain Campaign staff shakeup starts the fallout of political pros as candidates weaken or fail.  This is important to people interested in Presidential appointments in 2008-2009 because they are insiders, and tend to migrate toward stronger candidates, taking their and contacts and suggestions for appointments with them. March 15 2007

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     John Isaacson, page owner, graduated from Washington University Law School - He was involved in Missouri state politics as campaign manager for Governor and as state Republican Campaign Chairman in 1963-1964. Isaacson was an Air Force Intelligence Officer in Europe during the Berlin Crisis under John Kennedy - President Nixon appointed him to serve on the President's Commission for the Observance of the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations, serving on the Executive Committee and the China Subcommittee which recommended the admission of China to the United Nations. His political experience includes meetings with Presidents Harry Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, and Ford. He enjoyed a long personal friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt and Edna Gellhorn, the founder of The League of Women Voters. Isaacson has traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Near and Far East.  He now lives in western Montana near the Rocky Mountain Continental Divide in Butte Montana, the "Richest Hill on Earth."

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