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Eric Corbin Deputy Assistant to the President, Assistant to the Vice President From March 2007 through November 2008, Mr. Corbin was Deputy Policy Director of the Kent-Russo presidential campaign. From Jan 2009 to June 2010, Corbin was Deputy Chief of Staff to the President. Issues over a speech addressing PAFTA caused speculation Corbin would return to the private sector, however at the suggestion of the VPOTUS, he moved into the Vice President's office. The PAFTA speech included phrasing which it was felt undermined the President's position, suggesting that the Administration was flexible about PAFTA at a time when Kent was pushing strongly for a unified facade. Corbin made reasonable excuses, but clearly lost the favor of the President over the issue. From 1994 to 1999, Mr. Corbin was Executive Director, Legal & Government Affairs, for Silverman Baggs International in London. During the Administration of President Clinton, Mr. Corbin served for three years as General Counsel to the US Trade Representative and one year in the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs. Previously, from 1985 to 1989, he was International Trade Counsel to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. Earlier, Mr. Corbin was in a private law practice, and worked in the legal office of the US State Department. He also served as Executive Assistant to the Director of the Kissinger Commission on Central America. Mr. Corbin received his AB with distinction from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (1980) and his JD from Stanford Law School (1984), where he was an editor of the Stanford Law Review. Immediately after law school, he served as a law clerk at the US District Court in San Francisco. During the fall semester of 1997, Mr. Corbin taught international trade at Yale Law School.
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Executive Office of the Vice President (OVP) The EOVP is modeled on the Office of the President, and contains a working staff that oversees the work and communications issues of the Vice President. Typically the POTUS and VPOTUS work in close coordination, but pursuing different areas of priority. Typically because of the role of the VPOTUS as the President of the Senate, the EOVP assists with Congressional relations. In practical terms, President Kent and Vice President Russo work together on wide initiatives, but they are not particularly close - more distant than President Clinton and Al Gore, who were not exceptionally close. The relationship is very much unlike the Bush-Cheney White House where the Executives were often seen as moving in lock step on key issues. In
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