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Mary Matalin formerly served as assistant to President Bush and counselor to Vice
President Cheney, and was the first White House official to hold a double title.
Before joining the Bush/Cheney White House, Matalin hosted CNN's critically
acclaimed debate show, Crossfire. Mary Matalin is the former founding co-host of
the Washington-based political weeknight talk show, Equal Time, which premiered
in May 1993 on CNBC. She served as co-host until shortly after the 1996 national
political conventions. Her political astuteness and antics contributed to the show's
being called "the best talk show on television" by Knight Rider News Service.
Matalin's humor, straightforward discussion, and ability to discuss the hottest
political issues in Washington helped to make the show one of the most talked
about programs in the network's history.
Mary has made frequent television appearances as a political commentator, and
has written for various periodicals including Newsweek and The Los Angeles
Times. Matalin also co-authored the best-selling political campaign book All's Fair:
Love, War and Running for President with her husband, James Carville, who was
the chief campaign strategist for Clinton/Gore in 1992.
Matalin took her sharp wit and free-spirited political repartee to the airwaves during
her own three-hour afternoon radio program on the CBS Talk Radio Network, "The
Mary Matalin Show."
Matalin has been active in politics since college, starting at the grassroots level in
local and statewide campaigns in her native Illinois. The Reagan Revolution brought
her to Washington, DC where she served the Republican National Committee.
After a hiatus from Washington to attend Hofstra Law School, Mary returned to the
RNC in 1984, to serve as national voter contact director for the Reagan-Bush
Campaign. She held senior positions in the George H. W. Bush 1988 campaign
and, upon President Bush's election, was appointed chief staff for the RNC.
In 1992, President Bush named her the deputy campaign manager for political
operations. As deputy campaign manager, she was responsible for the overview
and organization of all 50 state operations. As the on-board planner who traveled
with President Bush throughout the 1992 campaign, she emerged as the vocal, and
occasionally controversial, defender of the president and his policies.
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