Dana T. Milbank (born 27 April 1968) is a political reporter for The Washington Post. Events 1124 - David I becomes King of Scotland. 1296 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D He is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of Trumbull College, the Progressive Party of the Yale Political Union and the secret society Skull and Bones. Trumbull College is one of twelve undergraduate residential colleges of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Parties The Union is an umbrella organization that currently contains seven Parties the Liberal Party (Lib the Party of the Left (PoL the Progressive Party (Prog the Independent Skull and Bones is an elite Secret society based at Yale University, in New Haven Connecticut. [1] [2] [3]
Milbank covered the 2000 US Presidential election and the 2004 US Presidential election. The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Democratic candidate Al Gore, then Vice President, and Republican The United States presidential election of 2004 was held on Tuesday November 2, 2004, to elect the President of the United States. He also covered US President George W. Bush's first term in office. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. In 2001, a pool report penned by Milbank which covered a Bush visit to the US Capitol generated controversy within conservative circles. Press pool refers to a group of news gathering organizations pooling their resources in the collection of news [4] According to Milbank, the nickname given to him by the president is "not printable in a family publication. "[5]
As a reporter for The Washington Post, Milbank writes "Washington Sketch", an observational column about political theater in the White House, Congress, and elsewhere in the capital. Before coming to the Post as a political writer in 2000, he covered the Clinton White House for The New Republic and Congress for The Wall Street Journal. The New Republic ( TNR) is an American Magazine of politics and the arts
Milbank is the author of Smash Mouth: Two Years in the Gutter with Al Gore and George W. Bush--Notes from the 2000 Campaign Trail. A new book, Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government, was published by Random House in January 2008. Random House Inc is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher [6]
References
- ^ Lloyd Grove, "Yale Bones Connect Kerry, Bush", New York Daily News, March 4, 2004
- ^ Deborah Mitchell, "A Rich Bounty, Gone For Good", New York Daily News, January 28, 2001
- ^ "Kerry versus Bush: Eight is Enough", The Hotline, March 4, 2004. The Daily News of New York City is the fifth most-widely circulated daily Newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 703137 The Daily News of New York City is the fifth most-widely circulated daily Newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 703137 The Hotline is a daily political briefing published by the National Journal from its headquarters at The Watergate complex in Washington
- ^ Christopher Cooper, "Bloggers Parse Pool Reportage On Bush Doings", The Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2005
- ^ Bryan Keefer, "Dana Milbank on Covering the White House and Nicknames We Can't Publish", Columbia Journalism Review
- ^ Homo Politicus by Dana Milbank - Books - Random House
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