{"id":1620375,"date":"2022-08-23T12:33:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T16:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1620375"},"modified":"2022-08-23T12:34:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T16:34:45","slug":"bidens-body-man-to-leave-white-house-role-for-new-post-at-department-of-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-body-man-to-leave-white-house-role-for-new-post-at-department-of-transportation\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s &#8220;Body Man&#8221; to Leave White House Role for New Post at Department of Transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-body-man-to-leave-white-house-role-for-new-post-at-department-of-transportation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1620375&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Stephen Goepfert, President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;body man,&#8221; will depart his role at the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\">White House<\/a> at the end of the week and take up a new post at the Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/08\/23\/politics\/stephen-goepfert-joe-biden-white-house\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>, which broke the news of Goepfert&#8217;s departure on Tuesday, he will be replaced by White House receptionist Jacob Spreyer.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/biden-wins-and-roe-reversal-enthusiasm\">BIDEN WINS AND ROE REVERSAL NEARLY ELIMINATE GOP&#8217;S MIDTERM &#8216;ENTHUSIASM&#8217; ADVANTAGE<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From the campaign to the White House, Stephen Goepfert has been by my side,&#8221; Biden said in a statement. &#8220;In moments big, small, and extraordinary, he&#8217;s been a trusted and loyal confidante who everyone counts on and who always delivers. Jill and I will miss Stephen, but we&#8217;re proud that he will continue to serve the American people in his new role in the Biden-Harris administration as he continues his career in public service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Presidential body men occupy a unique role at the White House. Their duties stretch across both the chief executive&#8217;s public and private lives, requiring the person holding the job to be present at the president&#8217;s side through nearly all hours of the day. <\/p>\n<p>The extreme demands of the job have forced every president dating back to Richard Nixon to cycle through multiple body men throughout their terms in office. Biden&#8217;s immediate predecessors, former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, employed two and four body men throughout their respective terms.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Goepfert, the first openly gay presidential body man, first entered Biden&#8217;s orbit during the Obama years, when he served as a senior adviser to the then-vice president and his chief of staff, Steve Ricchetti. Goepfert eventually took over Biden&#8217;s full personal aide duties on the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2020-elections\">2020 presidential campaign trail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Goepfert, President Joe Biden&#8217;s &#8220;body man,&#8221; will depart his role at the White House at the end of the week and take up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1620377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1620377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}