We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning the Cold War or in the 1940s during World War II, the responsible thing to do has been to borrow money to win the war.

When Bush became President Mehlman became director of the White House Office of Political Affairs. Bush and Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 2005 to 2007.

Ken Mehlman is responsible for overseeing the firm's global external affairs activities including corporate marketing regulatory affairs and public policy communications and engagement with the firm and portfolio companies' key stakeholders. On August 26 2010 Mehlman came out as gay making him one of the most prominent openly gay figures in the Republican Party. Holocaust Memorial Council.