chief administrative assistant

A court system spokesman said McCaffery’s wife, Lise Rapaport, also retired Monday from her $84,000-a-year job as his chief administrative assistant.

This was the man who for 25 years had been Stalin's chief administrative assistant and one of the three or four directors of the Soviet effort in World War II.

Ed McKim was named chief administrative assistant to the President, a job held in the Roosevelt administration by Louis McHenry Howe and later by Marvin Mclntyre.

Molotov has long been Stalin's chief administrative assistant, and with Beria in the next top post, the new Government can hope for the full support of the secret police.