Meet 20 Indian-Americans In Joe Biden s Cabinet; 17 At Key WH Positions
It is also for the first time ever that so many Indian-Americans have been roped into a presidential administration ever before the inauguration AP/PTI Outlook Web Bureau 2021-01-17T11:10:19+05:30 Meet 20 Indian-Americans In Joe Biden s Cabinet; 17 At Key WH Positions outlookindia.com 2021-01-17T11:12:18+05:30
US President-elect Joe Biden has either nominated or named at least 20 Indian Americans, ahead of the historic inauguration. Of those named, 13 are women who are likely to hold key positions in Biden s administration, setting a new record in itself. While, 17 of them would be part of the powerful White House complex.
Less than 100 hours ahead of his historic inauguration, US President-elect Joe Biden has either nominated or named at least 20 Indian Americans, including 13 women, to key positions in his administration, a new record in itself for this small ethnic community that constitutes one per cent of the country s population. As many as 17 of them would be part of the powerful White House complex. The January 20th inauguration, the 59th in all, wherein Biden would be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States is already historic in the making as for the first time ever a woman Kamala Harris would be sworn as the vice president of the country.
2 Indian Americans named in Biden-Harris White House counsel team ANI | Updated: Jan 12, 2021 03:18 IST
Washington [US], January 12 (ANI): US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday (local time) named two Indian-Americans Neha Gupta and Reema Shah as part of the White House Counsel s Office.
Gupta, an attorney in the Office of the General Counsel for the Biden-Harris Transition has been chosen to serve as Associate Counsel, while Shah, who served on the debate preparation team on the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris Campaign was named as the Deputy Associate Counsel.
Gupta has previously served as a Deputy City Attorney in the San Francisco City Attorney s office, where she was general counsel to several city agencies, litigated constitutional and statutory challenges to city laws and administrative decisions, and participated in the office s affirmative public protection advocacy.
Part 1 of this two-part article was on a notorious character in a post-Second World War-era program called Paperclip. It was a Faustian pact of the worst kind: to secretly bring Nazi scientists to work in the United States. Indeed, immediately after the Second World War came to an end in 1945, certain elements of the military and intelligence community clandestinely sought to bring numerous scientists within the German medical and scientific communities into the United States to continue research – and at times highly controversial research – they had undertaken at the height of the war. It was research that included studies of human anatomy and physiology in relation to aerospace medicine, high-altitude exposure, and what was then termed “space biology.” The startling fact that some of these scientists were ardent Nazis, and even members of the notorious and feared