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Secretary to the President of the United States

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of the United States was established, and charged with the affairs of the White House. Together with the Appointments Secretary the two took responsibility of most of the president's affairs and at this point the Secretary to the President was charged with nothing other than managing the president's
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The prior role of Secretary to the President should not be confused with the modern president's personal secretary who is officially an administrative assistant in the Executive Office of the President. The role of personal secretary to the president should also not be confused with the
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that the Chief of Staff became a permanent fixture in the White House, and the appointments secretary was reduced to only functional importance. The Appointments Secretary position was eliminated in 1981, with the responsibilities transferred to the recently created
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At the time of its peak the Secretary to the President was a much admired government office held by men of high ability and considered as worthy as a cabinet rank; it even merited an oath of office. Three private secretaries were later appointed to the Cabinet:
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created a definite office named the "Private Secretary at the White House" and appropriated for its incumbent a salary of $ 2,500. The first man to hold such office officially and to be paid by the government instead of by the president, was Buchanan's nephew
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During the mid 20th century, the position became known as the "appointments secretary", the person who was the guardian of the president's time. He had the responsibility of acting as "gatekeeper" and decided who got to meet with him.
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By 1900, the office had grown in such stature that Congress elevated the position to "Secretary to the President", in addition to including on the White House staff two assistant secretaries, two executive clerks, a
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and Appointments Secretary, but from 1933 to 1939, as he greatly expanded the scope of the federal government's policies and powers in response to the Great Depression, Roosevelt relied on his "
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paid the salaries of their private secretaries out of their own pockets; these roles were usually fulfilled by their relatives, most often their sons or nephews.
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The appointments secretary was the guardian of the president's time. He had the responsibility of acting as "gatekeeper" and decided who got to meet with him.
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in the common parlance of the time) at his disposal, both of whose salaries were paid by the president personally. In fact, all presidents up to
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to the position, but he took a leave of absence before Eisenhower's inauguration and later withdrew without ever having served.
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Grant was closer to his military secretaries who did most of the work normally associated with the Private Secretary.
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too expanded the duties of their respective secretaries to dealing with reporters and giving daily press briefings.
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is a long-standing position in the United States government, known by many different titles during its history.
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Washington had several young assistant secretaries who made copies of his correspondence. Among these were
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were created using a formal structure. Roosevelt was able to get Congress to approve the creation of the
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Kennedy and Johnson still relied on their appointments secretaries instead and it was not until the
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who had died in 1936) and had many of its duties supplanted by the Appointments Secretary.
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Robert "Bob" Lewis, Howell Lewis, Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., and George Washington Craik.
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Bergeron, Paul H. (2001). "Robert Johnson: The President's Troubled and Troubling Son".
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official correspondence before the office was discontinued at the close of the
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position that carried out all the tasks now spread throughout the modern
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The modern-day position of the president's secretary is fulfilled by a
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Before 1937 the title was only "Assistant Secretary to Appointments".
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During the nineteenth century, presidents had few staff resources.
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In 1946, in response to the rapid growth of the U.S. government's
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It was during Buchanan's term at the White House in 1857 that the
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converted Hoover's two extra secretaries into the permanent
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Personal secretaries to the President of the United States
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President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
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reporting directly to the president, which included the
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had one messenger and one secretary (referred to as an
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Index

White House Appointments Secretary

John G. Nicolay
John Hay
Alexander Gardner
White House
White House Office
White House Chief of Staff
administrative assistant
personal assistant
Oval Office Operations
Oval Office
Thomas Jefferson
amanuensis
James Buchanan
James K. Polk
his wife
United States Congress
J. B. Henry
Ulysses S. Grant
stenographer
John Addison Porter
George B. Cortelyou
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
George B. Cortelyou
John Hay
Daniel S. Lamont
Warren G. Harding
Herbert Hoover

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