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Friday, June 12, 2009
Ex-Clinton Aide Hires Caldera for Think Tank
By Michael Coleman
Journal Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Former University of New Mexico President Louis Caldera, who resigned as director of the White House Military Office last month following an Air Force One photo fiasco, has landed a new job.
The Center for American Progress, a self-described "progressive" think tank founded by a former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, has hired Caldera to work on higher education and national security issues.
Caldera, also a former U.S. Army secretary, resigned from the White House last month after a spare Air Force One jet buzzed lower Manhattan as part of a White House photo assignment he authorized. The flyover sent thousands of New Yorkers into the street fearing another 9/11-style attack.
Caldera will make a strong addition to Center's staff, said John Podesta, the organization's CEO and the former Clinton aide.
"Louis's extensive background in higher education and national security policy will help strengthen CAP's expertise on these issue areas, along with our work on immigration reform and economic mobility," Podesta said in a news release.
"I am delighted to have the opportunity to join this outstanding group of thinkers and doers who are working to improve the lives of all Americans through the development and implementation of progressive policy ideas," Caldera said in the release.
Caldera has been on leave from the University of New Mexico as a tenured law professor.
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