June 20, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Vasquez: National Journal: During Gaddi Vasquez's tenure, the agency has undergone a budgetary and programmatic expansion as Vasquez, in the words of Chief of Staff Marie Wheat, employs one of his best assets: his "ability to articulate where he wants the agency to go and how he wants to get there. That's the kind of no-nonsense kind of guy he is."
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June 20, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Vasquez: National Journal: During Gaddi Vasquez's tenure, the agency has undergone a budgetary and programmatic expansion as Vasquez, in the words of Chief of Staff Marie Wheat, employs one of his best assets: his "ability to articulate where he wants the agency to go and how he wants to get there. That's the kind of no-nonsense kind of guy he is."
During Gaddi Vasquez's tenure, the agency has undergone a budgetary and programmatic expansion as Vasquez, in the words of Chief of Staff Marie Wheat, employs one of his best assets: his "ability to articulate where he wants the agency to go and how he wants to get there. That's the kind of no-nonsense kind of guy he is."
Gaddi H. Vasquez, the first Hispanic American to serve as Director of the Peace Corps, was nominated by President George W. Bush.
During Gaddi Vasquez's tenure, the agency has undergone a budgetary and programmatic expansion as Vasquez, in the words of Chief of Staff Marie Wheat, employs one of his best assets: his "ability to articulate where he wants the agency to go and how he wants to get there. That's the kind of no-nonsense kind of guy he is."
Decision Makers: Gaddi Vasquez, Peace Corps
By Gwen Glazer
National Journal
Washington, DC
June 20, 2005
Who are the members of President Bush's second-term team? This special issue of National Journal profiles 367 top officials in the Bush administration -- from senior White House aides to Cabinet department administrators to agency heads.
Gaddi Vasquez, Peace Corps Director
202-692-2230
Vasquez knows trailblazing: The first Hispanic-American director of the Peace Corps, he was also the first Latino on the board of supervisors in Orange County, Calif. -- and the first person in his family to earn a college degree.
Vasquez, 50, was born in Carrizo Springs, Texas, to migrant farmworkers; his grandparents came to the United States from Mexico. When he was 2, the family moved to California, where Vasquez would eventually earn degrees from Santa Ana Community College and the University of Redlands. He graduated from the Los Angeles Police Academy as valedictorian of his class in 1975 and served as an active-duty officer for three years.
Vasquez held several government posts on the local, city, and state levels until Republican Gov. George Deukmejian appointed him to the Orange County board in 1987. He was re-elected to the board twice. After the county went bankrupt in the 1990s, Vasquez moved to the private sector as a vice president at Southern California Edison, but he continued his political involvement by helping the presidential campaigns of George H.W. Bush in 1992 and former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., in 1996.
President George W. Bush pulled him back into the public eye, and in February 2002, Vasquez was confirmed as the head of the Peace Corps. During his tenure, the agency has undergone a budgetary and programmatic expansion as Vasquez, in the words of Chief of Staff Marie Wheat, employs one of his best assets: his "ability to articulate where he wants the agency to go and how he wants to get there. That's the kind of no-nonsense kind of guy he is."
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