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Ben Rhodes

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Ben Rhodes served as deputy national security advisor to President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017, overseeing the administration’s national security communications, speechwriting, public diplomacy, and global engagement programming. From 2007 to 2008 Rhodes was a senior speechwriter and foreign policy advisor to the Obama campaign. He is the author of The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House (2018).

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