{{short description|American political advisor (born 1971)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Dan Bartlett |image = Daniel Joseph Bartlett.jpg |office = [[Counselor to the President]] |president = [[George W. Bush]] |term_start = January 5, 2005 |term_end = July 5, 2007 |predecessor = [[Karen Hughes]] (2002) |successor = [[Ed Gillespie]] |office1 = [[White House Communications Director]] |president1 = [[George W. Bush]] |term_start1 = October 2, 2001 |term_end1 = January 5, 2005 |predecessor1 = [[Karen Hughes]] |successor1 = [[Nicolle Wallace]] |birth_name = Daniel Joseph Bartlett |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|6|1}} |birth_place = [[Waukegan, Illinois]], U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |spouse = Allyson |children = 4 |party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] |education = {{nowrap|[[University of Texas at Austin|University of Texas, Austin]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])}} }} '''Daniel Joseph Bartlett''' (born June 1, 1971) is an American political advisor who served as [[Counselor to the President|counselor to the president]] and [[White House Communications Director|communications director]] in the administration of [[Presidency of George W. Bush|George W. Bush]].
==Early life and education== Bartlett grew up in [[Rockwall, Texas]]<ref>[https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/Youthful-Bush-aide-climbing-ranks-as-Hughes-8941209.php Youthful Bush aide climbing ranks as Hughes moving out - Plainview Daily Herald] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618053006/https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/Youthful-Bush-aide-climbing-ranks-as-Hughes-8941209.php |date=June 18, 2018 }} Retrieved April 16, 2018.</ref> and is a 1989 graduate of [[Rockwall High School]]. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in political science from the [[University of Texas at Austin]].
==Political career== [[File:President George W. Bush reviews his State of the Union speech.jpg|thumb|right|Bartlett, [[Brett Kavanaugh]], [[Condoleezza Rice]], and [[Michael Gerson|Mike Gerson]] review [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]'s State of the Union speech in 2004.]]
=== Bush gubernatorial staff (1990s) === Bartlett worked on George W. Bush's first campaign for [[Governor of Texas|governor]] in 1994, when Bush unseated [[Ann W. Richards]]. He was appointed as deputy to the policy director in the governor's office and was issues director for Bush's 1998 gubernatorial re-election campaign.
=== Bush 2000 presidential campaign === Bartlett was the director of rapid response for George W. Bush's [[U.S. presidential election, 2000|2000 presidential campaign]].
=== White House communications director (2001-2005) === After Bush assumed office as president, he worked as a deputy to advisor [[Karen Hughes]] before being named [[White House Communications Director|White House communications director]].
Following the July 6, 2003, editorial by former ambassador [[Joseph C. Wilson|Joseph Wilson]], Bartlett (with [[Ari Fleischer]]) pushed reporters to pursue who in the [[CIA]] sent him to [[Niger]], but stopped short of revealing that his wife worked for the agency.<ref>{{cite magazine |first=John |last=Dickerson |title=Where's My Subpoena? - Valerie Plame, Scooter Libby, and me. |url=https://www.slate.com/id/2135565/ |magazine=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |date=February 7, 2006 |access-date=August 9, 2009}}</ref>
On September 1, 2004, Bartlett appeared on the ''[[The Daily Show|Daily Show with Jon Stewart]]'' on the second night of the [[2004 Republican National Convention]], where he discussed the convention and campaign.<ref>{{Citation |title=Dan Bartlett - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart |date=2004-09-02 |url=https://www.cc.com/video/iplit5/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-dan-bartlett |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202211228/https://www.cc.com/video/iplit5/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-dan-bartlett |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 2, 2023 |language=en |access-date=2023-02-02}}</ref>
=== Counselor to the president (2005-2007) === On January 5, 2005, the White House announced that Bartlett would assume the role of counselor to the president, which allows him to focus more broadly on strategic communication and the formulation of policy. He has also worked for [[Karl Rove]]'s political consulting firm. On June 1, 2007, Bartlett announced his resignation as Counsel to the President.<ref>{{cite news |first=Jim |last=Rutenberg |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/02/washington/02bartlett.html?pagewanted=all |title=Bush's Longest-Serving Aide Plans to Depart |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 2, 2007 |access-date=August 9, 2009}}</ref>
=== Post-resignation controversies === At the end of 2007, during an interview after having left the White House, Bartlett implied some [[conservative]] bloggers, such as [[Hugh Hewitt]], were unfiltered mouthpieces for the GOP and the Bush White House.<blockquote>I mean, talk about a direct IV into the vein of your support. It's a very efficient way to communicate. They regurgitate exactly and put up on their blogs what you said to them. It is something that we've cultivated and have really tried to put quite a bit of focus on.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Interview by Smith, Evan |date=January 1, 2008 |title=TEXAS MONTHLY TALKS: Dan Bartlett |url=http://www.texasmonthly.com/2008-01-01/talks-1.php |magazine=[[Texas Monthly]] |access-date=August 9, 2009}}</ref></blockquote>In May 2008, Bartlett appeared on various media outlets casting aspersions on the contentions raised by [[Scott McClellan]] in his book ''[[What Happened (McClellan book)|What Happened]]'' that the administration had repeatedly "shaded the truth" in connection with justifying the [[Iraq War]], and describing the role that various administration officials played in the [[Valerie Plame]] leak case.<ref>{{cite web |first=Mike |last=Celizic |title=McClellan: Plame leak case was turning point |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24861380 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080530095343/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24861380/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 30, 2008 |publisher=[[MSNBC]] |date=May 29, 2008 |access-date=August 9, 2009}}</ref> In a May 2008 telephone interview with [[CNN]], Bartlett "asserted that McClellan did not play a major role in key events, noting that the former aide was serving as deputy press secretary for domestic issues during the run-up to the war in Iraq, raising questions about how McClellan could claim the President used '[[propaganda]]' to sell the war."<ref>{{cite web |first=Ed |last=Henry |title=Bartlett rips McClellan, calls allegation 'total crap' |url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/28/bartlett-rips-mcclellan-calls-allegation-total-crap/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080529145701/http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/28/bartlett-rips-mcclellan-calls-allegation-total-crap/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 29, 2008 |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=May 28, 2008 |access-date=August 9, 2009}}</ref>
== Consulting == On October 28, 2007, Public Strategies, Inc., a business advisory firm, announced they had hired Bartlett as a senior strategist.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dan Bartlett to Join Public Strategies, Inc. |url=http://www.pstrategies.com/PR_20071028_Bartlett.php |publisher=Public Strategies |date=October 28, 2007 |access-date=August 9, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080929151647/http://www.pstrategies.com/PR_20071028_Bartlett.php |archive-date=September 29, 2008 }}</ref> In March 2009, Bartlett was named president and CEO of Public Strategies.<ref>{{cite news |date=March 9, 2009 |title=Dan Bartlett named CEO of Public Strategies |newspaper=Austin Business Journal |url=https://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2009/03/02/daily56.html |access-date=August 9, 2009}}</ref>
== Academia == In January 2009, Bartlett was named an adjunct faculty member at the [[Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs]] at the University of Texas at Austin, at which he taught a seminar on media and politics.<ref>{{cite news |title=Former top Bush aide joins LBJ School faculty |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2009/01/19/daily28.html |newspaper=[[Austin Business Journal]] |date=January 21, 2009 |access-date=August 9, 2009}}</ref>
== Walmart (2013 - present) == In May 2013, [[Walmart]] announced that Bartlett would become the company's new executive vice president of corporate affairs in late June.<ref name="walmart">{{cite web | url=http://news.walmart.com/news-archive/2013/05/22/dan-bartlett-joins-walmart-as-executive-vice-president-of-corporate-affairs | title=Dan Bartlett Joins Walmart as Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs | publisher=Walmart | date=May 22, 2013 | access-date=October 15, 2013 | archive-date=August 7, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130807090956/http://news.walmart.com/news-archive/2013/05/22/dan-bartlett-joins-walmart-as-executive-vice-president-of-corporate-affairs | url-status=dead }}</ref> He has held this position for just over a decade, and has written numerous articles regarding Walmart and his career.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bartlett |first=Dan |title=Dan Bartlett |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-bartlett |website=LinkedIn}}</ref>
== Personal life == In 2000, Bartlett married Allyson Elizabeth Sikes (born 1975). The couple has four sons Jake, Sutton, Whit, Wynn Bartlett, They reside in [[Austin, Texas]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}
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==External links== *[https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/government/bartlett-bio.html White House biography] *[http://www.pstrategies.com/ Public Strategies Inc] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109231231/http://www.pstrategies.com/ |date=November 9, 2007 }} *{{C-SPAN|1003767}}
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