“But more mysterious than Craig’s exit was the announced move eight days ago by Craig’s deputy, Cassandra Butts, a Harvard classmate of Obama’s and one of the administration’s highest-ranking African Americans.”
Butts is dead!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_Butts
On February 7, 2014, Butts was nominated by President Obama to be United States Ambassador to the Bahamas.
Butts told New York Times columnist Frank Bruni that she had visited Cotton about his objections to her nomination, and Cotton told her that because he knew that Obama and Butts were friends, blocking Butts was a way to “inflict special pain on the president,” Bruni wrote.
Butts died on May 26, 2016, still awaiting a Senate vote.[14] For several weeks after Butts’ death, her nomination had remained pending before the U.S. Senate on its executive calendar. Obama formally withdrew her nomination on June 9, 2016.
Butts was found dead in her Washington, D.C. home by her sister on May 25, 2016. According to a statement from her family she had suffered from a brief illness.[17] Bruni wrote that she had suffered from acute leukemia and had not felt ill until just beforehand.
From the Craig departure article in 2009:
“But more mysterious than Craig’s exit was the announced move eight days ago by Craig’s deputy, Cassandra Butts, a Harvard classmate of Obama’s and one of the administration’s highest-ranking African Americans.”
Butts died in 2016 in unfortunate, but interesting circumstances!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_Butts
On February 7, 2014, Butts was nominated by President Obama to be United States Ambassador to the Bahamas.
Butts told New York Times columnist Frank Bruni that she had visited Cotton about his objections to her nomination, and Cotton told her that because he knew that Obama and Butts were friends, blocking Butts was a way to “inflict special pain on the president,” Bruni wrote.
Butts died on May 26, 2016, still awaiting a Senate vote.[14] For several weeks after Butts’ death, her nomination had remained pending before the U.S. Senate on its executive calendar. Obama formally withdrew her nomination on June 9, 2016.
Butts was found dead in her Washington, D.C. home by her sister on May 25, 2016. According to a statement from her family she had suffered from a brief illness.[17] Bruni wrote that she had suffered from acute leukemia and had not felt ill until just beforehand.