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TODAY o December 15, 2000
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Bush aide makes quick transition
Saeed Ahmed - Staff
Friday, December 15, 2000
Like other members of George W. Bush's campaign staff, Sarah Youssef was
looking forward to the "Big Unwind" -- life after Election Day Nov. 7, when
months of chocolate-fueled all-nighters would give way to much-needed R&R.
"Instead, I got a paid vacation to lovely West Palm Beach and had a date with
chads," said Youssef, a 25-year-old Atlanta native who serves as Bush's
education policy analyst.
With Bush's presidency finally assured, Youssef isn't ready to start taking it
easy just yet.
"We have to get through our truncated transition first," she said. "Not much has
changed from the campaign except that we have less time to make sure the
new government is up and running."
Youssef, one of 15 staff members out of 290 who were moved from Bush's
campaign headquarters in Austin to his transition office in McLean, Va., said
she is now busy helping pick a secretary of education for the new
administration. Bush has said education reform will be his first piece of
legislation in office.
Youssef's Egyptian father and Australian mother moved to Atlanta from
Sydney, Australia, soon after she was born. A graduate of the University of
North Carolina, she put in two years at the Heritage Foundation, the
conservative think tank, until she was asked by the Bush campaign to come on
board as an analyst. She scrapped her plans to attend the London School of
Economics for graduate study.
While she is relieved the closest presidential election in 124 years is finally
over, Youssef said she will save her celebration for Inaugural Day. "That's
when we'll know it's for real," she said.
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