title: John P. Wheeler III
Stephen Schneider
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
Committee on the Present Danger
Otto Reich
Judson Welliver Society
Ronald Reagan judicial appointment controversies
First inauguration of Ronald Reagan
Elizabeth Dole
Virginia Knauer
sentences: John Parsons Wheeler III (December 14, 1944 –c. December 30, 2010), known as Jack Wheeler, was a chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, senior planner for Amtrak (1971–1972), official of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1978–1986), chief executive and CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, consultant to the Mitre Corporation (2009–death), and a presidential aide to the Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush administrations.
 He also held numerous other positions in the United States military, government, and corporations.
Stephen Henry Schneider (February 11, 1945 – July 19, 2010) was Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University, a Co-Director at the Center for Environment Science and Policy of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
 Schneider served as a consultant to federal agencies and White House staff in the Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations.
The presidency of Ronald Reagan began on January 20, 1981, when Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 1989.
 Reagan, a Republican, took office as the 40th United States president following a landslide win over Democratic incumbent President Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election.
 Reagan was succeeded by his vice president, George H. W. Bush, who won the 1988 presidential election with Reagan's support.
The Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) is an American foreign policy interest group.
 Its current stated single goal is "to stiffen American resolve to confront the challenge presented by terrorism and the ideologies that drive it" through "education and advocacy".
 Throughout its three iterations—in the 1950s, the 1970s, and the 2000s (decade), it influenced the Presidential administrations of Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush, and was still active as of 2008 .
Otto Juan Reich (born October 16, 1945), is an American former senior official in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush.
 Among other positions held, he has been the President's Special Envoy for the Western Hemisphere; Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; United States Ambassador to Venezuela; and Assistant Administrator of the US Agency for International Development, a recess appointment.
 In 2003, Bush appointed him US Special Envoy to the Western Hemisphere.
 Since leaving the White House in 2004, he has headed his own international consulting firm, Otto Reich Associates, LLC, based in Washington, D.C..
The Judson Welliver Society is a bipartisan social club composed exclusively of former presidential speechwriters in the United States.
 The group is named after Judson C. Welliver, the "literary clerk" to President Warren Harding, usually credited as being the first presidential speechwriter.
 Group meetings are usually held after major presidential speeches, such as the State of the Union.
 Active members have included William Safire (a Nixon writer who often hosted meetings), Jack Valenti who was a veteran of the Johnson administration, Pat Buchanan (Nixon and Reagan), David Gergen (Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton), Tony Snow (speechwriter for George H. W. Bush and press secretary for George W. Bush), Michael Waldman (Clinton), George Stephanopoulos (Clinton), James Fallows (Carter), Chris Matthews (Carter), Hendrik Hertzberg (Carter), Anthony R. Dolan (Reagan), Michael Gerson (George W. Bush), and Clark Clifford, who wrote speeches for Harry Truman.
During President Ronald Reagan's presidency, he nominated at least twelve people for various federal appellate judgeship who were not confirmed.
 In some cases, the nominations were not processed by the Democratic-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee before Reagan's presidency ended, while in other cases, nominees were rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee or even blocked by unfriendly members of the Republican Party.
 Three of the nominees were renominated by Reagan's successor, President George H. W. Bush.
 Two of the nominees, Ferdinand Francis Fernandez and Guy G. Hurlbutt, were nominated after July 1, 1988, the traditional start date of the unofficial Thurmond Rule during a presidential election year.
 Eight of the twelve seats eventually were filled by appointees of President George H. W. Bush.
The first inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the 40th President of the United States was held on Tuesday, January 20, 1981, on the West Front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C..
 This was the first inauguration to be held on the building's west side.
 The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Ronald Reagan as President and of George H. W. Bush as Vice President.
 Chief Justice Warren E. Burger administered the presidential oath of office to Reagan, who placed his hand upon a family Bible given to him by his mother, open to .
 Associate Justice Potter Stewart administered the vice presidential oath to Bush.
Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole (born July 29, 1936) is an American politician and author.
 She served in both the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush presidential administrations, as well as in the United States Senate.
Virginia Harrington Knauer (née Wright; March 28, 1915 – October 16, 2011) was an American Republican politician.
 She served as the Special Assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs and Director of the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs (1969–1977 and 1981–1989).
 In 1960 she became the first Republican woman to be elected to the Philadelphia City Council, in which she served for eight years.
 She was appointed to the newly created post of chief consumer advisor to Pennsylvania Governor Ray Shafer.
 She was also the mentor and good friend of former North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole.
 Knauer died on October 16, 2011 in Washington, D.C., at age 96.

Question: Question: Virginia Harrington Knauer was the mentor and good friend to which woman to serve in both the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush presidential administrations? 

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 John Parsons Wheeler III (December 14, 1944 –c. December 30, 2010), known as Jack Wheeler, was a chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, senior planner for Amtrak (1971–1972), official of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1978–1986), chief executive and CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, consultant to the Mitre Corporation (2009–death), and a presidential aide to the Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush administrations.
 He also held numerous other positions in the United States military, government, and corporations. 

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 Stephen Henry Schneider (February 11, 1945 – July 19, 2010) was Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University, a Co-Director at the Center for Environment Science and Policy of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
 Schneider served as a consultant to federal agencies and White House staff in the Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. 

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 Otto Juan Reich (born October 16, 1945), is an American former senior official in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush.
 Among other positions held, he has been the President's Special Envoy for the Western Hemisphere; Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; United States Ambassador to Venezuela; and Assistant Administrator of the US Agency for International Development, a recess appointment.
 In 2003, Bush appointed him US Special Envoy to the Western Hemisphere.
 Since leaving the White House in 2004, he has headed his own international consulting firm, Otto Reich Associates, LLC, based in Washington, D.C.. 

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 The Judson Welliver Society is a bipartisan social club composed exclusively of former presidential speechwriters in the United States.
 The group is named after Judson C. Welliver, the "literary clerk" to President Warren Harding, usually credited as being the first presidential speechwriter.
 Group meetings are usually held after major presidential speeches, such as the State of the Union.
 Active members have included William Safire (a Nixon writer who often hosted meetings), Jack Valenti who was a veteran of the Johnson administration, Pat Buchanan (Nixon and Reagan), David Gergen (Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton), Tony Snow (speechwriter for George H. W. Bush and press secretary for George W. Bush), Michael Waldman (Clinton), George Stephanopoulos (Clinton), James Fallows (Carter), Chris Matthews (Carter), Hendrik Hertzberg (Carter), Anthony R. Dolan (Reagan), Michael Gerson (George W. Bush), and Clark Clifford, who wrote speeches for Harry Truman. 

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 During President Ronald Reagan's presidency, he nominated at least twelve people for various federal appellate judgeship who were not confirmed.
 In some cases, the nominations were not processed by the Democratic-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee before Reagan's presidency ended, while in other cases, nominees were rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee or even blocked by unfriendly members of the Republican Party.
 Three of the nominees were renominated by Reagan's successor, President George H. W. Bush.
 Two of the nominees, Ferdinand Francis Fernandez and Guy G. Hurlbutt, were nominated after July 1, 1988, the traditional start date of the unofficial Thurmond Rule during a presidential election year.
 Eight of the twelve seats eventually were filled by appointees of President George H. W. Bush. 

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 The first inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the 40th President of the United States was held on Tuesday, January 20, 1981, on the West Front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C..
 This was the first inauguration to be held on the building's west side.
 The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Ronald Reagan as President and of George H. W. Bush as Vice President.
 Chief Justice Warren E. Burger administered the presidential oath of office to Reagan, who placed his hand upon a family Bible given to him by his mother, open to .
 Associate Justice Potter Stewart administered the vice presidential oath to Bush. 

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 Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole (born July 29, 1936) is an American politician and author.
 She served in both the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush presidential administrations, as well as in the United States Senate. 

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 Virginia Harrington Knauer (née Wright; March 28, 1915 – October 16, 2011) was an American Republican politician.
 She served as the Special Assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs and Director of the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs (1969–1977 and 1981–1989).
 In 1960 she became the first Republican woman to be elected to the Philadelphia City Council, in which she served for eight years.
 She was appointed to the newly created post of chief consumer advisor to Pennsylvania Governor Ray Shafer.
 She was also the mentor and good friend of former North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole.
 Knauer died on October 16, 2011 in Washington, D.C., at age 96. 

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Answer: Elizabeth Dole