Sidney Blumenthal
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| Senior Advisor to the President | |
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In office August 19, 1997 – January 20, 2001 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | George Stephanopoulos |
| Succeeded by | Karl Rove |
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Sidney Stone Blumenthal November 6, 1948 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Jacqueline Jordan |
| Children | 2 (including Max) |
| Education | Brandeis University (BA) |
Sidney Stone "Sid" Blumenthal (/ˈbluːmənθɔːl/; born November 6, 1948) is an American journalist, activist, writer, and former political aide.
He is a former aide to President Bill Clinton; a long-time confidant to Hillary Clinton, formerly employed by the Clinton Foundation; and a journalist, especially on American politics and foreign policy. He was editor of several departments and wrote for several publications including The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and was Washington, D.C. bureau chief for Salon.com, for which he has written over 1800 pieces online. He is a regular contributor to openDemocracy.net, and was a regular columnist for The Guardian. After 2000, he published several essays critical of the administration of President George W. Bush.
Blumenthal has written for several publications including The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Guardian and The New Yorker, and was briefly Washington, D.C. bureau chief for Salon.
Blumenthal was born in Chicago, to Jewish parents Claire (née Stone) and Hyman V. Blumenthal. He earned a BA in sociology from Brandeis University in 1969, and started his career in Boston as a journalist who wrote for The Boston Phoenix and The Real Paper, two weekly-issued publications.
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