page_title: Dan Bartlett
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Dan Bartlett / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: President George W. Bush reviews his State of the Union speech in the Oval Office Tuesday morning, January 20, 2004, with Communications Director Dan Bartlett, at left, Staff Secretary Brett Kavanaugh, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Mike Gerson, Director of Presidential Speech Writing. White House photo by Eric Draper
context_page_description: Daniel Joseph Bartlett was a Counselor to the President in the administration of George W. Bush. The position was previously held by Karen Hughes, who vacated the post in 2002. On June 1, 2007, Bartlett announced that would be leaving the White House on July 5. He was replaced by Ed Gillespie, the Republican gubernatorial nominee in Virginia in 2017.
context_section_description: Bartlett worked on George W. Bush's first campaign for governor in 1994, when Bush unseated Ann W. Richards. He was appointed as deputy to the Policy Director in the Governor's office and was Issues Director for Bush's 1998 gubernatorial re-election campaign.
  During the 2000 presidential campaign, Bartlett was the Director of Rapid Response for Bush for President; he later worked as a deputy to presidential advisor Karen Hughes before being named White House Communications Director. On January 5, 2005, the White House announced that Bartlett would assume the role of Counselor to the President, which allows him to focus more broadly on strategic communication and the formulation of policy. He has also worked for Karl Rove's political consulting firm. On June 1, 2007, Bartlett announced his resignation as Counsel to the President.
  On October 28, 2007, Public Strategies, Inc., a business advisory firm, announced they had hired Bartlett as a senior strategist.
  In January 2009, Bartlett was named an adjunct faculty member at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, at which he taught a seminar on media and politics.
  In March 2009, Bartlett was named president and CEO of Public Strategies.
  In May 2013, Walmart announced that Bartlett would become the company's new executive vice president of Corporate Affairs in late June.
caption: Bartlett, Brett Kavanaugh, Condoleezza Rice, and Mike Gerson review President George W. Bush's State of the Union speech in 2004
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