Longtime Obama pal Eric Whitaker keeps popping onto political scene

The Daily Caller reports:

Eric Whitaker has been friends with Barack Obama ever since they pursued graduate degrees at Harvard together.

Whitaker — who now runs the Urban Health Initiative (UHI) out of the University of Chicago Medical Center — often vacations with the first family, is a regular golf partner of President Obama’s and has organized Chicago-area parties for when the president visits the Windy City.

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