Posted on 11/10/2011 2:10:26 PM PST by EBH
President Barack Obama’s personal assistant is leaving the White House.
Reggie Love, the former Duke basketball player who has been a constant presence by Obama’s side since the 2008 presidential campaign, will depart the White House by the end of the year.
Love has been managing his role at the White House while also enrolled in an executive MBA program at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. A White House official said Love was leaving the administration so he could focus on school.
“His ability to juggle so many responsibilities with so little sleep has been an inspiration to watch,” Obama said in a statement. “He is the master of what he does.”
Love, 30, is the latest in a string of longtime Obama aides to leave the White House this year, including senior adviser David Axelrod, press secretary Robert Gibbs, deputy press secretary Bill Burton and deputy communications director Jen Psaki. All were part of Obama’s team since at least since the 2008 race.
But it is Love who has had perhaps the most unique access to the president.
As Obama’s personal assistant — a job that’s also known as the president’s “body man” — since the beginning of the administration, Love has been a near-constant presence by Obama’s side, both at the White House and in travels around and outside the United States.
Love first started working for Obama in his Senate office, and was promoted to personal assistant during the presidential campaign.
His job requirements have included everything from carrying copies of the president’s speeches, his iPod, and a steady supply of gum, newspapers and aspirin, to taking photos for audience members as they shook the president’s hand. Wherever the president goes, Love has rarely been more than a few steps behind.
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Reggie got tired of his house name “Stepin Fetchit”.
Wherever the president goes, Love has rarely been more than a few steps behind.
Well, that’s believable! ;)
Who will be Obama’s new Love?
I suspect something bad will happen to him.
Someone thought Rahm was hot???
“Unique access...” Would that mean a rear entry? Through the back door on the “Down Low” ?
What a sham this fraud has been. Time for serious leadership.
O my gosh, yes. Look at what happened to Donald Young, Nate Spencer and Larry Bland...
Hopefully Reggie will have his own body man.
Good caption!!!
OUCH!
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