The White House Press Secretary is a senior White House official whose primary responsibility is to act as spokesperson for the government administration.
The Press Secretary is responsible for collecting information about actions and events within the president's administration and issues the administration's reactions to developments around the world. The Press Secretary interacts with the media, and deals with the White House press corps on a daily basis, generally in a daily press briefing.
the president's administration consist of the following:
•Council of Economic Advisers •Council on Environmental Quality •Executive Residence •National Security Staff •Office of Administration •Office of Management and Budget •Office of National Drug Control Policy •Office of Science and Technology Policy •Office of the United States Trade Representative •Office of the Vice President •White House Office In addition, the following entities exist within the White House Office:
•Domestic Policy Council ◦Office of National AIDS Policy ◦Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships ◦Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation ◦White House Rural Council •National Security Advisor •National Economic Council •Office of Cabinet Affairs •Office of the Chief of Staff •Office of Communications ◦Office of the Press Secretary ◦Media Affairs ◦Research ◦Speechwriting •Office of Digital Strategy •Office of the First Lady ◦Office of the Social Secretary •Office of Legislative Affairs •Office of Management and Administration ◦White House Personnel ◦White House Operations ◦Telephone Office ◦Visitors Office •Oval Office Operations •Office of Presidential Personnel •Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs ◦Office of Public Engagement ■Council on Women and Girls ◦Office of Intergovernmental Affairs ◦Office of Urban Affairs •Office of Scheduling and Advance •Office of the Staff Secretary ◦Presidential Correspondence ◦Executive Clerk ◦Records Management •Office of the White House Counsel
Read more about White House Press Secretary: Responsibilities, List of Press Secretaries
Famous quotes containing the words white house, white, house, press and/or secretary:
“Judge Ginsburg’s selection should be a model—chosen on merit and not ideology, despite some naysaying, with little advance publicity. Her treatment could begin to overturn a terrible precedent: that is, that the most terrifying sentence among the accomplished in America has become, “Honey—the White House is on the phone.””
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“It is worth the while to detect new faculties in man,—he is so much the more divine; and anything that fairly excites our admiration expands us. The Indian, who can find his way so wonderfully in the woods, possesses an intelligence which the white man does not,—and it increases my own capacity, as well as faith, to observe it. I rejoice to find that intelligence flows in other channels than I knew. It redeems for me portions of what seemed brutish before.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What is the use of a house if you have n’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?—if you cannot tolerate the planet it is on?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television—with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“... the wife of an executive would be a better wife had she been a secretary first. As a secretary, you learn to adjust to the boss’s moods. Many marriages would be happier if the wife would do that.”
—Anne Bogan, U.S. executive secretary. As quoted in Working, book 1, by Studs Terkel (1973)