Tommy Vietor was a spokesperson for President Barack Obama and the United States National Security Council from 2011 to 2012.
13 Facts About Tommy Vietor
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Tommy Vietor is a co-founder of Crooked Media with fellow former Obama staffers Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett, and co-hosts the podcasts Pod Save America and Pod Save the World.
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Tommy Vietor was raised in Dedham, Massachusetts and attended Milton Academy.
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Tommy Vietor graduated from Kenyon College in 2002 with a BA in philosophy.
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In 2004, Tommy Vietor turned down an offer from the John Kerry presidential campaign in favor of joining Illinois State Senator Barack Obama for his first statewide run.
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Tommy Vietor was deputy press secretary for the Barack Obama Illinois Senate Campaign in 2004, then became deputy press secretary for Senator Obama the following year and press secretary the year after that.
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Tommy Vietor left the White House in March 2013, along with Obama's Director of Speechwriting Jon Favreau, to pursue a career in private sector consulting and screenwriting.
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In March 2016, Tommy Vietor became a regular co-host of The Ringer's political podcast Keepin' it 1600, along with Favreau and their fellow Obama administration alumni Dan Pfeiffer and Jon Lovett.
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Tommy Vietor hosted a five-part miniseries about the Iowa caucuses called Pod Save America: On the Ground in Iowa.
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In July 2018, Tommy Vietor married Hanna Koch in Healdsburg, California.
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Tommy Vietor was previously engaged in 2009 to Katie McCormick-Lelyveld, Michelle Obama's chief spokeswoman.
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On January 27,2022, Tommy and Hanna Vietor suffered from a pregnancy loss, losing their stillborn daughter, Margot, at 24 weeks.
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On Instagram, Tommy Vietor wrote that "A knot in her umbilical robbed her of nutrients and us of our future together".