ATA’s Addington To Become Cheney Counsel

January 3, 2001 10:56 AM, EST

David S. Addington, senior vice president and general counsel of American Trucking Associations, is leaving the trucking federation for a job in the new Bush administration.

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	David S. Addington

He has been appointed counsel to Vice President-elect Richard B. Cheney.

More than a new job, it is also a return to the Republican governing fold for the 43-year-old lawyer. Addington has worked before for Cheney. The Duke University Law School graduate was general counsel of the Department of Defense in 1992 when Cheney was secretary of defense.

He is “regarded as a longtime friend and aide to Cheney, and has held a number of sensitive posts for his former boss, including serving as Cheney’s ‘gatekeeper’ during his tenure at the Pentagon,” said Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper.

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