White House Years
Beginning in 2001, Goeglein ran the day to day operations of the Office of Public Liaison, a White House department under Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove. In December 2004, the Washington Post summarized Goeglein's job as "to make sure conservatives are happy, in the loop and getting their best ideas before the president and turned into laws." Writing in the New York Times, reporter David D. Kirkpatrick described him as "Mr. Rove's legman on the right". Edwin Feulner, president of the Heritage Foundation, said in June 2004 that he and Goeglein saw each other two or three times a week, and "If I have a message I want to get to Rove or the administration, I will scribble out a note to Tim, and within 24 hours I will get a response back. For lots of things, he is sort of one-stop shopping for a point of access to the administration."
During his seven years as Public Liaison, Goeglein helped establish the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. A White House statement said that he also "played an important role in the confirmation of Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and John G. Roberts." Goeglein represented the Bush administration at the funeral services for Reverend Jerry Falwell in May 2007, stating that Falwell was a "great friend of this administration" and "a force of nature."
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