John McCain was the Republican Party candidate for President of the United States in 2008. Rick Davis, his campaign manager, projected at one point that his staff would eventually increase to about 450. By early July 2008, it had opened 11 regional offices in key states and some 84 offices total across the country in a joint effort with the Republican National Committee.
National leadership team
Persons listed on the John McCain for President website: Former Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher – Chairman Frederic V. Malek – Finance Director Jill Hazelbaker – Spokeswoman
Inner circle
According to New York Times reporter John M. Broder: Steve Schmidt, head of campaign from July 2, 2008, veteran campaign manager Rick Davis, ran McCain's 2000 campaign Bill McInturff, chief pollster Mark Salter, McCain's Senate chief of staff John Weaver, chief political analyst (left campaign in 2007) Trevor Potter, chief counsel Others joining later or listed in other sources include: Charles R. Black, Jr., senior political adviser Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett Packard
The Bush team
Wayne L. Berman, lobbyist and Bush fund-raiser
Mark McKinnon, Bush's media consultant
Terry Nelson, Bush's political director 2004 campaign
Gerald L. Parsky, California chairman, Bush's 2000 and 2004 campaigns
Nicolle Wallace, née Nicolle Devenish, White House communications director
Ron Weiser, Ambassador to Slovakia and Bush fund-raiser
Policy advisers
Dan L. Crippen, director, Congressional Budget Office 1999–2003
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, director, Congressional Budget Office 2003–2005
Kevin Hassett, economist, American Enterprise Institute
Lisa Graham Keegan, Arizona education official
John Thain, CEO, Merrill Lynch
Foreign policy advisers
In October 2007, the Washington Post listed the following as McCain's foreign policy advisers. Randy Scheunemann, national security aide to then-Senate Majority Leaders Bob Dole and Trent Lott and now a lobbyist, defense and foreign policy coordinator (for this cycle and 2000)" Richard L. Armitage, "President George W. Bush's deputy secretary of state and an international business consultant and lobbyist, informal foreign policy adviser"; [24] deputy to former secretary of state Colin Powell Bernard Aronson, former Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American affairs; currently managing partner of private equity investment company ACON Investments William L. Ball III, Secretary of the Navy during President Reagan's administration, and managing director of lobbying firm the Loeffler Group Stephen E. Biegun, Aspen Strategy Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Council of the Americas, former national security aide to then-Sen. Bill Frist, currently VP international affairs, Ford Motors Steven Bogden, speechwriter Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations, former Wall Street Journal editor Brig. Gen. Tom Bruner Lorne W. Craner Lawrence Eagleburger, Secretary of State under George H. W. Bush, now a senior public policy adviser with law firm Baker Donelson Brig. Gen. Russ Eggers Maj. Gen. Merrill Evans Niall Ferguson, Harvard historian and Hoover Institution senior fellow Michael J. Green, former Asia adviser to President George W. Bush and now Japan chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Secretary of State under Reagan Maj. Gen. Evan "Curly" Hultman Robert Kagan, senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Brig. Gen. Robert Michael Kimmitt, current deputy Treasury secretary Henry A. Kissinger, Secretary of State under Richard Nixon Col. Andrew F. Krepinevich, President of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments William Kristol, editor, The Weekly Standard Adm. Charles Larson Robert McFarlane, National Security Adviser under Ronald Reagan Brig. Gen. Warren "Bud" Nelson Brig. Gen. Eddie Newman Maj. Gen. John Peppers Maj. Ralph Peters Brig. Gen. Maurice Phillips Gen. Colin Powell, Secretary of State (2001–2005) Kori Schake Research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution James R. Schlesinger, "President Nixon and President Ford's secretary of defense, energy and national security adviser"[24] Gary Schmitt, former staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee, currently American Enterprise Institute scholar Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser to Presidents Ford and George H. W. Bush and founder of business consultancy the Scowcroft Group George P. Shultz, Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan Brig. Gen. W.L. "Bill" Wallace Maj. Gen. Gary Wattnem R. James Woolsey, former CIA director, now a VP at Booz Allen Hamilton Other advisers: Lisa Curtis