Stefanopoulos, George

George Robert Stefanopoulos was born in Fall River , Massachusetts and grew up in Purcheis , New York , then Cleveland , Ohio , immigrant Greeks live there. His father was a Greek Orthodox priest (former dean of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in New York), has long been considered entering the priesthood itself. However, when he was a freshman at the Ohio High School in Orange, he decided that he would continue to study a different profession. Stefanopoulos fought for competitiveness in high school. Stefanopoulos received his bachelor 's degree from Colombia in 1982 , where he was a broadcaster for the WKCR sports television channel. He graduated with honors in the specialty of "political science", Stefanopoulos was with the highest title in his faculty. In addition, he was awarded a Truman Fellowship. He returned to his alma mater in 2003, as Columbia College's daytime speaker class.

Stefanopoulos’s father always wanted his son to become a lawyer, if not a priest, and he promised his father that he would eventually study at a law school. He first went to work with a congressman from Cleveland, and also worked as an assistant in Washington . However, the father constantly questioned his son when he would study at the law school, and when George agreed to take part in the law school, he would be offered a Rhodes scholarship . Although he was rejected on a scholarship during his last year at Columbia, Stefanopoulos was successful in his second attempt.

While at Oxford , Stefanopoulos received his Master of Theology at Baliol College with his Rhodes Scholarship . He reported that spending a lot of time he tried to eradicate his political inclinations in the deep philosophies that he taught at that time in Oxford.

In May 2007, Stefanopoulos received the honorary doctorate from St. John's University.

After college, Stefanopoulos joined in collaboration with Ed Feyan as legislative assistant, and then worked as chief of his staff. In 1988, Stefanopoulos worked in the campaign of Michael Dukasisom . He wrote that one of the attractions in this campaign was that Dukakis was a Greco-American liberal from Massachusetts. After this campaign, Stefanopoulos began working with Dick Gefardt in and NGOs and held the position until he joined the Clinton campaign.

Stefanopoulos was, together with David Wilhelm and James Cervill, a lead member in the Clinton campaign in 1992 . His role in this campaign is portrayed in the documentary film The War of the Meetings.

At the beginning of Clinton’s presidency, Stefanopoulos acted as a de facto spokeswoman for the press briefing, although Dee Dee Myers was the White House 's official spokeswoman.

He was later transferred to the position of senior policy and strategy adviser when DI Myers personally began conducting briefings (after several verbal mistakes by Stefanopoulos) and David Gergen was brought in as the new director of the White House. This move is largely seen as a rebuke to Stefanopoulos's appeal to public relations during the first six months in the Clinton administration.

On February 25, 1994, George Stefanopoulos and Harold Ickes held a conference with Roger Altman to discuss the Corporation Trust ( RTC ) resolution to select Republican attorney Jay Stephens as head of Madison Warranty, who later turned into an investigator.

Stefanopoulos resigned from the Clinton administration shortly after Clinton's re-election in 1996 .

His 1999 memoir , entitled “All Too Human: A Political Education,” was published after he left Clinton’s White House for a second term. this memoir rather became the bestseller of The New York Times . In his book, Stefanopoulos talks about his depression and how his face broke out into hives due to the pressure of Clinton's messaging in the White House. Bill Clinton mentioned the book about his autobiography, My Life , apologizing for what he believes in retrospect to be excessive in the demands made on a young employee. The book covers the entire period from the day Stefanopoulos met with Clinton in September 1991 until the day he left the White House in December 1996 , through two presidential campaigns and four years in the White House.

Stefanopoulos describes Clinton in the book as "a person who finds it difficult to respond to the pressures and pleasures of society and so I discovered how terribly he endures it."

George Stefanopoulos is also a member of the Bilderberg Club .

Leaving the White House at the end of Clinton’s first office, Stefanopoulos became ABC News political analyst and worked as a correspondent on Sundays on ABC , participating in these programs: This Week , World News with Charles Gibson , Good Morning America . His participation was in special broadcasts. In September 2002, Stefanopoulos became the host of the programs: This Week , and ABC News and George were officially named the “Washington Chief Correspondent” in December 2005.

• This Week with George Stephanopoulos website