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Gary Ginsberg      

Lawyer, American Political Operative & Corporate Adviser, serving as a strategist in both the public and private sectors

Gary L. Ginsberg is a lawyer, American political operative and corporate adviser, serving as a strategist in both the public and private sectors for more than 25 years. Ginsberg has bore witness to some of the most important events in recent American history and was known as “the connection to Washington on multiple instances” while working for names such as Bill Clinton, Rupert Murdoch and Jeff Bewkes. He served as the Senior Vice President and Global Head of Communications at SoftBank Group Corp. before resigning in 2020. Before joining SoftBank, Ginsberg served as Executive Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Communications at Time Warner and as Executive Vice President of Global Marketing and Corporate Affairs at News Corp. Ginsberg is the author of "First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (and Unelected) People Who Shaped our Presidents" published in July 2021, which reached The New York Times Best Seller list. Throughout his career, Ginsberg arranged lunches with Bill Clinton, orchestrated a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton and arranged a meeting between Rupert Murdoch and Barack Obama. He was a point man for News Corp.’s 2007 purchase of Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, served as a senior adviser to Time Warner's CEO Jeff Bewkes and met with Jared Kushner at the White House about the Trump administration's concerns about CNN. Ginsberg gives a behind the curtain look at how the powerful members of our government and businesses make world-changing decisions.

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How JFK's Lifelong Friend Helped Shape U.S. Foreign Policy
This article has been adapted from Gary Ginsberg's first book, First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents. Twenty-one months into his term in the White House, the youngest elected president in American history found himself facing a crisis so grave that it threatened not only his political life but also humanity itself.
'First Friends': New book explores presidential BFFs who helped shape history
Gary Ginsberg profiles the confidants of nine U.S. presidents who helped their respective commanders in chief chill out, strategize and make history. Everyone needs a BFF, especially people in high places: someone to lean on in good times and bad. When President Bill Clinton got himself into a pickle or wanted to play 18 holes, he’d tell his staff, “Call Vernon.” Were it not for his buddy Vernon Jordan, Clinton might not have wound up in the White House.
Presidential Friendships the Focus of New Book From Former Clinton White House Lawyer Gary Ginsberg
Gary Ginsberg’s proximity to power during his years as a lawyer in the Clinton White House gave him a keen understanding of how influence works in the executive branch. But the spark for his new book, “First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (and Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents,” came from his observations of two other political figures: Gary Hart and Donald Trump.

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