Interviews - Alphabetical Listing
| George J. Albanese | Commissioner, NJ Department of Human Services, Governor Kean | |
| Raymond Bateman |
NJ State Senator and Senate President; Republican gubernatorial nominee against Byrne in 1977 | |
| Roger A. Bodman |
Gubernatorial Campaign Manager for Governor Kean and Commissioner, NJ Department of Transportation | |
| Michael J. Breslin |
Former Bergen County Democratic chairman | |
| Albert Burstein |
NJ State Assembly Member and Majority Leader | |
| Brendan T. Byrne |
New Jersey Governor, 1974-1982 | |
| Jean Byrne |
Former wife, Governor Byrne | |
| Tom Byrne, Jr. |
Chair, NJ Democratic State Party, Son of Governor Byrne | |
| Timothy Carden |
Commissioner, Department of Human Services; Cabinet Secretary under Governor Byrne | |
| Charles Carella |
Executive Secretary to Governor Byrne; Executive Director, NJ Lottery Commission; Assistant Essex County Prosecutor under Prosecutor Byrne; |
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| Michael Catania |
Deputy Commissioner, NJ Department of Environmental Protection; Governors Kean and Florio; Environmental Section Chief, Office of Legislative Services | |
| Anthony S. Cicatiello |
Campaign Manager & Advisory, Governor Kean | |
| Thomas Cochran | Special Assistant to Governor Byrne for healthcare and education on finance issues | |
| Richard J. Codey |
NJ Governor, NJ State Senator and Senate President; NJ State Assemblyman | |
| Richard Coffee |
NJ State Senator; Chair, NJ Democratic State Committee;
Executive Director, NJ Assembly Democrats |
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| Michael R. Cole |
Chief Counsel to Governor Kean | |
| Robert Comstock | Communications Director; Executive Editor, Bergen Record | |
| Linda Cooper |
NJ Department of Labor & Industry; State Energy Office, Governor Byrne | |
| Saul Cooperman |
Commissioner, Department of Education, Governor Kean | |
| Chris Daggett |
Commissioner, Department of Environmental Protection;
Deputy Chief of Staff specializing in education policy for Governor Kean |
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| John Degnan |
Attorney General;
Executive Secretary;
Counsel and Assistant Counsel to Governor Byrne |
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| Robert J. Del Tufo |
Attorney General, Governor Florio; U.S. Attorney for NJ | |
| Harriet Derman |
Commissioner of Community Affairs; Chief Counsel, Chief of Staff, Governor Whitman | |
| James P. Dugan |
NJ State Senator; NJ State Democratic Chairman | |
| Michael Dukakis |
Governor of Massachusetts from 1975-1979 and again from 1983-1991. | |
| W. Cary Edwards |
Chief Counsel to Governor Kean | |
| Jerry F. English |
Legislative Counsel; Commissioner, NJ Department of Environmental Protection, Governor Byrne | |
| Barry Evenchick |
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| William Faherty |
President, NJ Chamber of Commerce | |
| Fariborz S. Fatemi |
Assistant to Governor Brendan Byrne, 1973-1979 | |
| Michael Fedorko |
Chief, Governor Byrne's Security Unit;
Acting Superintendent, NJ State Police;
Later-Commissioner, NJ Casino Control Commission |
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| State House reporter for the Elizabeth Daily Journal and the Bergen Record during Govneror Byrne's term. | ||
| James J. Florio |
Governor of New Jersey from 1990 to 1994. | |
| Daniel Gaby |
Media Adviser for Governor Byrne;
Vice Chair and Member, NJ State Board of Education |
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| Louis Gambaccini |
Commissioner, NJ Department of Transportation, Governor Byrne | |
| Hazel Gluck |
Commissioner, Department of Insurance; Commissioner, Department of Transportation and Chair, New Jersey Transit Corporation, Governor Kean | |
| Carl Golden |
Press Secretary for Governor Kean | |
| Clifford Goldman |
State Treasurer, Governor Byrne | |
| Richard J. Goldstein |
Commissioner of Health of New Jersey, Governor Kean | |
| Robert Grady |
Communications Director for Governor Kean | |
| Martin L. Greenberg |
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| William Hamilton |
NJ State Assembly Member and Speaker; NJ State Senator | |
| Alan Handler |
Counsel to Governor Byrne; Associate Justice, NJ Supreme Court | |
| Harold Hodes |
Chief of Staff, Governor Byrne | |
| Edward T. Hollander |
Chancellor, NJ Department of Higher Education, Governors Byrne, Kean and Florio | |
| Michael Horn |
State Treasurer, Governor Kean | |
| New Jersey assemblyman; member, Board of Public Utilities, attorney general during Byrne administration | ||
| Feather O'Connor Houston | State Treasurer; Executive Director, Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, Governor Kean | |
| Robert E. Hughey | Commissioner, Department of Environmental Protection, Governor Kean | |
| Ralph Izzo |
Senior Policy Advisor on energy, science and technology, Governor Kean | |
| Sanford M. Jaffe |
Assistant Prosecutor; Chief, Appellate Section under Essex County Prosecutor Byrne | |
| Joseph Katz |
Media Adviser and Lobbyist to Governor Byrne; |
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| Thomas H. Kean |
New Jersey Governor, 1982-1990 |
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| Chief of policy and planning, Governor Christine Todd Whitman; later served as Commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs; regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency. | ||
| Orin Kramer |
Special Assistant to Treasurer Leone; Issues Director, 1973 Byrne Campaign; Chair, NJ Investment Council | |
| Jeffrey Laurenti |
Executive Director, NJ Senate Democrats | |
| Richard C. Leone |
Byrne Campaign manager, 1973 and 1977 Campaigns; State Treasurer | |
| Don Linky |
Chief counsel to Governor Byrne; director of the Governor's Office of Policy and Planning | |
| Henry Luther |
Executive Secretary to Governor Byrne; Executive Director, NJ Lottery Commission; Manager for 1977 campaign | |
| New Brunswick mayor 1979-91, state senator 1981-2001. Worked with Governor Kean as state Democratic leader. | ||
| Assemblyman; Later-NJ State Senator; Later-Assistant Commissioner, NJ Department of Education, Governor McGreevey | ||
| Harold Martin |
NJ State Assembly Member; Bergen County Freeholder | |
| Frank McDermott |
NJ State Senator and Senate President; Chair, Sandman Gubernatorial Campaign against Byrne in 1973 |
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| Peter McDonough |
Director of communications and press secretary, Governor Whitman; Assistant state treasurer | |
| Edward McGlynn |
Deputy Chief of Staff; Chief of Staff to Governor Kean | |
| Richard McGlynn |
Public Utilities Commissioner, Byrne administration | |
| Kenneth McPherson |
Political Adviser to Governor Byrne; Commissioner, Port Authority of NY & NJ; Chair, Hudson Waterfront Study Commission | |
| Edward F. Meara, III | Executive Director, Mercer County Chamber of Commerce | |
| Kenneth D. Merin |
Deputy Counsel for Governor Kean;
Chief, Governor Kean's Office of Policy and Planning |
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| Richard Mills |
Special Assistant on Education to Governor Thomas H. Kean (R) from 1984-1988 |
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| Robert E. Mulcahy III |
Chief of Staff, Governor Byrne; Commissioner, NJ Department of Corrections; Deputy Commissioner, NJ Dept. of Human Services; CEO, NJ Sports & Exposition Authority |
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| Daniel J. O'Hern |
Counsel to Governor Byrne; Commissioner, NJ Department of Environmental Protection; Associate Justice, NJ Supreme Court | |
| Clinton Pagano |
Superintendent, State Police, Governor Byrne; |
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| Glenn Paulson |
Assistant Commissioner, NJ Dept. of Environmental Protection, Governor Byrne | |
| Steven Perskie |
Assemblyman; State Senator; Chief of Staff, Governor Florio | |
| Stewart Pollock |
Chief Counsel to Governor Byrne; Associate Justice, NJ Supreme Court | |
| Deborah Poritz |
Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1996-2006) and Attorney General (1994-1996), both after being nominated by Governor Whitman Also served as Chief Counsel to Governor Kean (1988-1990) |
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| Alan Rosenthal |
Professor, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University | |
| Alan Sagner |
Commissioner, NJ Department of Transportation; Finance Chairman, 1973 Campaign; Chairman, Port Authority of NY and NJ | |
| Judy Shaw |
Marketing Director, NJ State Lottery; Chief of Staff, NJ Department of Transportation; and Chief of Staff to Governor Christine Todd Whitman. | |
| Patricia Sheehan |
Commissioner, NJ Department of Community Affairs, Governor Byrne; |
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| John P. Sheridan |
Commissioner, Department of Transporation, Governor Kean; Chair, New Jersey Transit Corporation |
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| Gary S. Stein |
Chief of Governor Kean's Office of Policy & Planning; | |
| Jane Swift |
Governor of Massachusetts, 2001-2003 | |
| Steven Tasker |
Deputy attorney general in the Department of Law & Public Safety | |
| Lewis B. Thurston III |
Executive Director, NJ Senate Republicans;
Executive Director, NJ Election Law Enforcement Commission; Chief of Staff for Governor Thomas H. Kean; Vice President, NJ Sports & Exposition Authority |
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| Marla Ucelli-Kashyap |
Special Assistant for Education to Governor Kean | |
| Carl Van Horn |
Policy Advisor, Governor Florio | |
| Stanley C. Van Ness |
Public Advocate, Governor Byrne | |
Chair of NJ Transit Board of Directors from 1998 to 2002; senior vice president, Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor; in 2010, appointed executive director of NJ Transit by Governor Christie. |
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| Christine Todd Whitman |
Governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001. | |
| John Whitman |
Husband of Governor Whitman. | |
Assemblywoman; Assistant Commissioner, NJ Dept. of Environmental Protection, Governor Byrne; NJ Department of Human Services; |
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| Attorney Genera, Governor Byrnel; Chief Justice and Associate Justice, NJ Supreme Court |
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| Carl Zeitz |
Commissioner, NJ Casino Control Commission; State House Bureau Chief, Associated Press; Editorial Page Editor, Bergen Record | |