Timothy Goeglein

Timothy Goeglein (pronounced Ghegline) (born January 6, 1964) was Special Assistant to U. S. President George W. Bush and Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison from 2001 to 2008. He resigned following the discovery of plagiarism in more than 20 opinion pieces he wrote for a newspaper in his home town. In January 2009, Goeglein became the Vice President of External Relations for the Christian Organization Focus on the Family.

A descendant of Macedonian immigrants, Goeglein grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. His family had few strong political commitments, and attended a liberal Lutheran church. At the age of 12, he was a host of WANE-TV’s "News for Little People"; as a sophomore at Paul Harding High School in Fort Wayne, he became a producer of WOWO radio’s "Mikeside," a Sunday-evening mix of student-produced newscasts and interviews.

Goeglein attended Indiana University Bloomington, majoring in journalism and political science.

Goeglein's first year after college was spent in broadcast media. In 1985, he interned for Indiana Republican Senator and then-future Vice President Dan Quayle. By the late 1980s, he was working as a deputy press secretary for Republican Senator Dan Coats, also of Indiana.

Goeglein became a spokesman for Presidential candidate Gary Bauer, a conservative Republican, in early 1999. After Bauer dropped out of the race in February 2000, Goeglein was recruited for the George W. Bush presidential campaign; he and his wife and their two young sons moved to Austin, Texas in 2000 for that purpose.

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