Reggie Love and Katie Johnson, President Barack Obama’s two closest personal aides, are privy to the most intimate moments of the President’s life in the White House. As Obama’s body man and personal secretary, respectively, these two aides shoulder enormous responsibility. So it may come as a surprise that neither one is yet out of their twenties.
Love serves as a “body man” to Obama. Love has said he was hired with “no job description whatsoever,” but his responsibilities include anticipating President Obama’s needs – this means carrying pens and other miscellaneous items, knowing the President’s favorite foods, and joining him on the basketball court every once in a while.
At 27, Love has already garnered attention in the political as well as athletic limelight. He attended Duke University, where he was forward for the 2001 national championship-winning NCAA squad. He was also a wide receiver for the football team. Love studied Public Policy and Political Science, and graduated in 2004.
Love’s celebrity status, even in the fashion arena, won him Huffington Post’s “Who’s the White House’s Hottest Employee?” contest, edging out Obama speech writer Jon Favreau for first place by a slim margin of 26.06% to 25.97%.
His Facebook page has 760 fans, while Love himself is only a fan of one other page: Barack Obama’s.
Love’s Facebook fans recognize the difficult nature of his job.
“From the minute he wakes up until he goes to bed, I think his job must be all-consuming,” said Geoff Love, a Facebook fan of Love’s (who, despite joking that Love is “like a brother”, admitted he is not related to him in an interview with SCOOP44).
He added, “He also has to play basketball with Obama and not make him look bad on the court.”
Ted Dickson, a teacher at Providence Day School in North Carolina, does know Love from his high school tenure. He wrote a recommendation for Love during the college application process and speaks highly of his former student.
“Academically, Reggie took challenging courses and was an active participant in those classes. He took AP Government his junior year, despite the fact that it is normally a senior year course, and that same year, he took the AP US History exam even though he was not in the AP US course. His academic desire and dedication are all the more impressive when you consider his busy athletic and extracurricular schedule,” Dickson said.
Dickson cited more athletic accomplishments at Providence Day: he won All-State and All-Conference honors for football, and in basketball he led the team to two consecutive state championships.
Why government for Love?
“Reggie believes strongly in helping and caring about other people. This was readily apparent if one were to observe him walking around campus with a smile and a ‘hello’ for everyone. His peers especially enjoyed his camaraderie and company. He was probably the most popular student on campus. This popularity was especially obvious in with the younger students (Providence Day is a TK-12 school), and Reggie took his status as a role model very seriously,” Dickson added.
In Love’s own words, according to Dickson: “When eight hundred little kids on campus all knew my name and wanted to give me a high five, I put it on myself to be the leader and the nice guy. I have tried to be a person who displays the values that the parents at PDS try to instill into their children, so that if kids try to emulate me they will turn into good students and polite young ladies and gentlemen.”
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June 15, 2009 at 11:06 pmGreat publication. Keep reaching out to the youth all over the world, regardless off the status of their country with the US. Please do not allow the fearful old guard with their stale divisive attitudes to hijack the planet's future.
June 17, 2009 at 12:59 pmI'm confused – you mention Katie Johnson in your introduction and then she doesn't appear again in the rest of the article. Is page two missing, or something?!
June 17, 2009 at 1:27 pmi know. this is just about Reggie. where are the others? (i like Reggie) Am i missing a second page?
June 17, 2009 at 4:49 pmYeah, where's the info on Katie??
June 17, 2009 at 5:14 pmYou forgot about Eugene Kang, 24, Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to President Obama.
In addition, he's Obama's golf buddy.
How could you have missed him?
You need to do more research before you publish your article.
June 18, 2009 at 8:14 pmYES, there's a “PART II”
June 19, 2009 at 12:07 pmLove and Johnson should be very useful.
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EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY!
George W. Bush continuously criminally stalked Margie Schoedinger to the point that she could not get away from it, and she committed suicide in desperation to escape: he murdered her.
“In her suit, Margie Schoedinger states that George W. Bush committed sexual crimes against her, organized harassment and moral pressure on her, her family members and close relatives and friends. As Schoedinger said, she was strongly recommended to keep her mouth shut. . . . Furthermore, she alleges that George Bush ordered to show pressure on her to the point, when she commits suicide” (blog of drizzten).
“One of those ‘very leasts’ [was] George Bush’s personal complicity in the death (murder to be precise) of my friend Margie Schoedinger in September of 2003. Determining the exact whereabouts and contacts of [then] president-elect George Bush on September 21 thru 22, 2003, should be entirely lacking in difficulty” (Leola McConnell—Nevada Progressive Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010).
McConnell is correct: Bush applying pressure (continuously criminally stalking Margie Schoedinger) purposefully to force Schoedinger to commit suicide does in fact constitute murder where it culminated in her death.
Bush is a racist hate criminal and hates black people (please feel free to see my “GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” blog: andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com). (Schoedinger was an African-American woman.)
BEWARE: If the president of the United States hates one—for whatever reasons—he can continuously criminally stalk one to the point that one cannot get away from it, and one ultimately commits suicide in desperation to escape. He can murder people in this way.
Bush is getting away with his murder of Schoedinger—with no sheriff, prosecutor, or court willing to uphold the rule of law.
Bush’s method of murdering Schoedinger cannot exist in a vacuum: he must have murdered other people in the same way.
Bush should confess, come out with the names of all of the people whom he murdered in the disgusting way he murdered Schoedinger, undergo execution, and accordingly find himself at the intersection where he would be free.
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June 20, 2009 at 3:37 pm_______________
Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
(a.k.a. “THE DISSEMINATING MACHINE”)
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
I am eagerly waiting for the part 2! Where is it?
June 25, 2009 at 8:20 amA good rapport will result to a good governance. No wonder people closed to the president will have a good name too. Just curious since the aid knows the favorite food of the president, he should make it a point to suggest toxic-free, and preservative-free food only.
July 14, 2009 at 11:25 pmHe's good at Basketball you know.
July 28, 2009 at 8:17 amHe's too thin to play with the big guys though. Hehe. But yeah I agree he's doing good dribbling and shooting the ball.
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