and the extraordinary seven-day a week hours they ve put into this effort is greatly to their credit. i want to specifically thank the executive director rick deer burn who has done a masterful job. grateful for the incoming white house chief of staff reince priebus, don mcgahn working almost around the clock in supporting the efforts of this transition effort. for our team here bill haggerty, ron nichol, jamie burke and elizabeth pinkerton on personnel. eric uland on legislative team. the progress that we have made in the course of this transition and the extraordinarily brisk pace with which it s been conducted is a tribute to the integrity and work ethic of these men and women and i know the
organizations, associations and various interests and entities. an awful lot of people to thank and there is more details that you ll see in the memorandum that i will convey to the president-elect today. let me begin by expressing my appreciation first and foremost to president barack obama and vice president joe biden. the cooperation that the outgoing administration has extended in this transition effort would make every american proud. and i know the president-elect has expressed his appreciation not just for the hospitality but for the collaboration of this administration in supporting our team s transition efforts and i would reiterate that today. also very grateful to the gsa administrator denise roth and her outstanding team at gsa for the work they ve done to support our efforts. also grateful for the vice chairs and executive committee of the transition effort who have put in very long hours. a number of them are with us
treasury. let me say i ve been very honored to serve as chair of the transition effort but all that we ve accomplished here a credit goes to a great team, our volunteers, literally hundreds and hundreds of volunteers who have put in hours and hours to support this effort. our executive committee, vice chairs, staff, but really the critic tell you goes to our president-elect. sometimes people stop me on the street and say how are you holding up? i can t imagine how busy you are. i tell them you have to understand that the energy and the enthusiasm of donald trump is contagious. and it has been his energy and his expectation that has driven this transition effort. i m proud to say to be at a place where we ve named our entire cabinet before we reach that historic day tomorrow. our job really was to make sure the president-elect had the opportunity to make decisions, to assembly the team around him that will make america great
chair this transition effort, the team we ve had around us and the extraordinary seven-day-a-week hours is greatly to their credit. i want to thank director rick dearborn, who has done a masterful job, extremely thankful for the energetic reince priebus, don mcgann, literally working almost around the clock in supporting the efforts of this transition effort. for our team here, bill haggerty on presidential appointments, ron nichol on agency action, jamie burke and elizabeth pinkerton on personnel, eric uland on legislative affairs and a ball of a team that would make anyone proud. the progress we have made and the extraordinarily brisk pace is a tribute to the integrity
from more than 1,200 organizations, associations and various interests and entities. there s an awful lot of people to thank and there s more details you ll see in the memorandum that i ll be conveying to the president-elect today. let me begin by expressing my appreciation first and foremost to president barack obama and vice president joe biden. the cooperation that the outgoing administration has extended in this transition effort would make every american proud, and i know the president-elect has expressed his appreciation, not just for the hospitality but for the collaboration of this administration in supporting our team s transition efforts and i would reiterate that today. also very grateful to the gsa administrator, denise turner-roth and her outstanding team at gsa for the work they ve done to support our efforts and grateful for the vice chairs and executive committee of the transition effort who have put