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Revision as of 20:40, 8 October 2012
- This is about the political professional. For the actress, see Marlee Matlin.
Mary Matalin | |
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Born | Mary Joe Matalin August 19, 1953 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Western Illinois University |
Occupation | Political consultant |
Spouse |
Mary Joe Matalin (born August 19, 1953) is an American political consultant, well known for her work with the Republican Party. She has served under President Ronald Reagan, was campaign director for George H.W. Bush, was an assistant to President George W. Bush, and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney until 2003. Matalin has been chief editor of Threshold Editions, a conservative publishing imprint at Simon & Schuster, since March 2005. She is married to Democratic political consultant James Carville. She appears in the award-winning documentary film Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story and also played herself, opposite her husband, James Carville, John Slattery, and Mary McCormack in the short lived, HBO series K Street.
Early life
Matalin grew up in the Chicago suburb of Calumet City, Illinois, the daughter of Eileen (née Emerson), who ran beauty salons, and Steven Matalin, a steel mill worker.[1][2] Her paternal grandparents were Croatian immigrants and her mother was of Irish descent.[3][4] Matalin attended Thornton Fractional North High School and attended Western Illinois University for college and Hofstra University School of Law, where she was enrolled for one year before dropping out.
Career
Matalin's first campaign was Illinois Lieutenant Governor Dave O'Neal's bid for the U.S. Senate in 1980, a race O'Neal lost to Alan Dixon.[citation needed] After O'Neal's loss, Matalin began her career with the Republican National Committee, where she would remain for nearly two decades as a key Republican strategist. Leaving briefly to attend Hofstra University School of Law, Matalin dropped out after just one year, and in 1984 returned to the RNC. She rose quickly, as an aide to Richard Bond and Chief of Staff to RNC co-Chairperson Betty Heitman in 1985. A year later, Matalin gained national attention when she joined George H. W. Bush's 1988 presidential campaign, working as both Deputy Political Director and Midwest Regional Political Director in the primaries. After the election, Matalin was appointed Chief of Staff to then RNC Chairman Lee Atwater. In that capacity, she would in effect run the RNC for nearly a year, as Atwater—his health declining due to an inoperable brain tumor—spent 170 days in the hospital between his diagnosis in early March 1990 and eventual death on March 29, 1991.[5]
In 1992, Matalin served as the deputy campaign manager for political operations on Bush's reelection campaign. Notably, she served in this role while dating her future husband, James Carville, who was chief strategist for the Clinton campaign.[6]
Matalin was a host of CNN's Crossfire political debate show, and in 1993, she co-hosted Equal Time, which aired on the CNBC business television channel.[citation needed] Matalin was also the host of her own talk radio show in the 1990s, "The Mary Matalin Show", which was carried on the CBS Radio Network.[7] She is currently on the nationally syndicated radio program Both Sides Now w/ Huffington & Matalin, hosted by Mark Green and aired weekends on 120 stations.
Matalin, a colleague of Karl Rove, worked for Vice President Dick Cheney in the White House. She attended meetings of the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), an internal White House task force convened in August 2002 (seven months before the 2003 Invasion of Iraq).[citation needed] WHIG was the group that presented to the US public of the threat of Saddam Hussein's violations of international law in his refusal to cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.
Matalin resigned her responsibilities as of December 31, 2002.[8]
Matalin also appeared alongside her husband James Carville in HBO's 2003 television show K Street where she and her husband played versions of themselves as they lobbied real and fictional politicians. The show was directed by Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh and featured a cast of fictional and real characters working in the political sphere.
In March 2005, Matalin was hired as chief editor of a new conservative publishing imprint, Threshold Editions, for CBS-owned Simon & Schuster.[9][10] On August 1, 2008, this division released The Obama Nation, written by Jerome Corsi who co-authored Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry.[11]. Other notable titles published by Threshold Editions includes Dick Cheney's In My Time, Karl Rove's Courage and Consequence and a number of Glen Beck books including Cowards, and Broke [12].
In April 2006, she was appointed Treasurer of Virginia Republican Senator George Allen's re-election committee.[citation needed] She worked on the presidential campaign of Fred Thompson until January 2008, when Thompson dropped out of the race.[citation needed]
In 2008, Matalin joined the Board of Directors at The George Washington University's Cheney Cardiovascular Institute.[13]. Mary also serves on numerous other boards including The Water Institute of the Gulf (TWIG), Conscience Cause, The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) and the Tulane President's Council.
Matalin appears in the 2008 award-winning documentary on Lee Atwater, Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story. Speaking about Lee, she says, "They had to kill the messenger because they couldn’t kill the message. They had to turn him into the Boogie Man. Satan incarnate.”[citation needed]
On April 26, 2009, Matalin returned to CNN as a political contributor, joining her husband, James Carville on a special "First 100 Days" edition of State of the Union with John King.[14][15]
In 2010, Matalin and husband James Carville were named co-chairs of Super Bowl XLVII, held in 2013 in New Orleans. [16]
- In 2012, Matalin and husband Carville began appearing together in "Cocktail Party" commercials for Maker's Mark Kentucky Straight Bourbon.
Personal life
In October, 1993, she married James Carville, a political strategist for candidates of the Democratic Party. Matalin had also maintained a long domestic partnership with Washington attorney Michael Carvin, but Carville had not been married before.[citation needed] They were married in New Orleans. Matalin and Carville have two daughters, Matalin Mary "Matty" Carville and Emerson Normand "Emma" Carville.[citation needed] Both Matalin and Carville have gone on record saying that they do not talk politics at home.[17] The best example of contention between the two, aside from appearances on talk shows, is the 1993 movie The War Room. In the 1992 political campaign, Matalin and Carville were staffing opposing campaigns. Matalin wrote the best-selling book All's Fair: Love, War and Running for President with Carville and co-author Peter Knobler. In April 2004, she published the book Letters to My Daughters.[18] In 2008, Carville and Matalin — at the urging of Scott Cowen, president of Tulane University, where Carville now teaches — moved their family to New Orleans.[19] On April 26, 2009, the Times-Picayune carried a joint op-ed "Point of View" by Mary Matalin and James Carville on their reasons for settling in New Orleans.[20] Matalin and Carville are profiled in the Politics chapter of the book The Compatibility Matrix.[21]
See also
References
- ^ "Undivided Loyalty" by Bill Hewitt, People, June 01, 1992, Vol. 37, No. 21
- ^ http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/mary-matalin/bio/207505
- ^ "All's fair in love & politics", Texas Banking, January 1, 2006
- ^ "From Political Rivals to Marital Partners". The New York Times. November 26, 1993. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ Brady, John Joseph. "Bad Boy: The Life and Politics of Lee Atwater." New York: Perseus, 1996.
- ^ All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President, Mary Matalin and James Carville, Random House, 1994, pp. 11-12.
- ^ Archive - Mary Matalin Show
- ^ Catherine Martin is Named Assistant to the Vice President for Public Affairs, Mary Matalin, Assistant to the President and Counselor to the Vice President Resigns
- ^ [1] Threshold Editions
- ^ The Office of Mary Matalin
- ^ "New Swift Boat Book Tops Charts" Taegan Goddard's Political Wire 13 August 2008
- ^ http://imprints.simonandschuster.biz/threshold.
- ^ "Board of Directors" Cheney Cardiovascular Institute, The George Washington University 14 June 2009
- ^ [http://www.tvguide.com/News/CNN-Mary-Matalin-
1005396.aspx "CNN Adds Conservative Voice to Pundit Lineup"]. TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2009-04-23.
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And joining us now from New Orleans, our newest CNN political contributor, Republican Mary Matalin, alongside our longtime contributor Democrat James Carville.
- ^ htt[://www.neworleanssuperbowl.com
- ^ All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President, Mary Matalin and James Carville, Random House, 1994, p. 10.
- ^ Matalin, Mary (2004). Letters to My Daughters. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-5608-7.
- ^ Argetsinger, Amy; Roberts, Roxanne (2008-03-27). "His Family Is Following the Ragin' Cajun Home". The Reliable Source. The Washington Post. pp. C03. Retrieved 2008-04-01. Daniel Monteverde, Political odd couple takes stage at Tulane graduation, Times-Picayune, 2008 May 18 (accessed 2009 May 1).
- ^ Mary Matalin & James Carville, "Issues in mayoral election transcend race" in Times-Picayune (New Orleans), 2009 April 26, Metro Edition, p. B5. In the print version Matalin's name comes first; in the web version, Carville's name is first. Accessed 2009 April 26.
- ^ The Compatibility Matrix: The Qualities of Your Ideal Mate, Heather Collins Grattan, CreateSpace, 2011, pp. 61-62.
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- 1953 births
- American political consultants
- American political pundits
- Commentators
- American people of Croatian descent
- George W. Bush Administration personnel
- Illinois Republicans
- Living people
- People from Calumet City, Illinois
- People from New Orleans, Louisiana
- United States presidential advisors
- Western Illinois University alumni
- Women in Illinois politics
- Maurice A. Deane School of Law alumni