He was awarded a Medal of Freedom in 1946 for service as a deputy political adviser at the Allied Forces Headquarters for the Mediterranean in Caserta, Italy.

He became a deputy adviser two years later, and soon joined the board.

After the War, he joined the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from 1949-1952 he was the deputy political adviser to the Soviet Control Commission in Germany.

She has been principal deputy legal adviser at the State Department since September and was previously general counsel to the National Security Agency.

The Congressional Research Service also called him "a Karzai brother-in-law", when it reported he was the first deputy adviser on Afghanistan's National Security Council in 2010.

Her mother was the Mayor of Montclair, N.J., from 1980 to 1984, and was the principal deputy legal adviser in the State Department from 1985 to 1989.

The next morning, the President met in the Map Room with Tom Donilon, his national-security adviser, Denis McDonough, a deputy adviser, and Brennan.

Colonel O'Donnell, 45, is the deputy military adviser at the United States Mission to the United Nations in New York.

"The most compelling reason for defense conversion is the disgrace when someone trained as a scientist has to give up that profession," said Gene Sperling, deputy adviser to the President for economic policy.

During the 1990s he founded the American University in Bulgaria and served as a deputy adviser on Balkan affairs to President Clinton and the secretary of state.