A Well-Oiled Revolving Door

Anna Perez, until recently the National Security Council's director of communications and Condoleezza Rice's "counselor of communications," will become NBC's chief communications executive in May. Her resume also includes having served as Barbara Bush's press secretary during the first Bush administration (1989-1993), the Chevron oil company's General Manager of Corporate Communications and Programs (1988), and the Vice-President of California Government Relations for the Walt Disney Company (1995-1988). "I love the television business," Ms. Perez remarked, enthused about her new job. "I have no expertise in it so I will have a bit of a learning curve. But I can't remember the last time I didn't have a learning curve when I took a new job."