Bob Weiner Biography-- Track
Bob Weiner is President of Robert Weiner Associates Public
Affairs and Issue Strategies since leaving the White House in Aug. 2001
after 6 ½ years there, and is a credentialed White House and Congress
correspondent because of his columns in major papers and radio-TV.
He was Director of Public Affairs and Spokesman, Office of National
Drug Policy, under President Clinton and Drug Czars General Barry
McCaffrey and Lee Brown, and also during the Bush transition.
Earlier in a 30-year top level government and political career,
Bob was Director of Communications, House Government Operations
Committee, under Cong. John Conyers; Communications Director,
House Narcotics Committee, under Cong. Charles Rangel; Chief of
Staff, House Aging Committee, under Cong. Claude Pepper, where Bob
led the Pepper bill successfully abolishing age-based mandatory
retirement and efforts to protect Social Security and Medicare; and
Legislative Assistant to Cong. Ed Koch.
In the sports and track and field arenas, Bob serves as Chair of
the Masters Media Committee for USA Track and Field, and is on the
executive committee of Masters Track and Field and the MTF AntiDoping and Awards committees. In 2013 he won USA Track and
Field’s highest national service award for masters, the David Pain
Distinguished Service Award, and in 2011 he won the President’s
Award for all USA Track and Field. Bob has directed media for the US
national indoor and outdoor masters championships since 2003 and is
credited with dramatically increasing coverage – at Winston Salem in
2014, over 4 million viewers according to Nielson ratings, 59 TV stories
including ESPN, Fox, ABC, CBS. NBC, and TWC (which went live two
hours), and daily front page regional press with photos. He is
passionate about the message of lifetime health and fitness through
training and competition. As a masters runner, he has made allAmerican almost every year in the steeplechase or the mile. While
working at the White House for over six years, Bob served on the
Executive Board of the White House Fitness Center.
Bob directed White House drug policy media at the Sydney
Olympics and WADA media at the Salt Lake Olympic Games. Former
USADA Chair and Olympic marathon gold medalist Frank Shorter said
at a White House celebration of Bob’s career that Bob helped to create
WADA and USADA. Bob is President of the Capitol Hill Runners,
former President of the Sugarloaf Mt. AC (MA), former Vice President
of the DC Road Runners, an active member of the Northern Virginia
Track Club (NOVA) and a board member, and the Potomac Valley
Track Club. He led the successful bid for the first Indoor National
Masters Championship in the DC area in 2009, and it returned since.
He was co-director of the Mobil Invitational Masters Mile for eight
years, and was director and Chair of the RRCA National Ten Mile
Championship.
Bob co-captained the Blair Academy (NJ) cross country team, was
third in the NJ state meet in cross country and the mile, and in college
won the Ohio Conference Cross Country Relays while running for
Oberlin College (OH). He ran varsity track and cross-country all four
years at Blair and Oberlin.
Bob is a regular commentator on national issues on Main Street
Radio Network’s 200 stations, has many times as “Washington Insider”
commentator on Fox Television on “Fox and Friends, ” and has been on
CNN, ABC, NBC, ABC, Showtime, Bill Maher, Crossfire, Geraldo, and
many other radio and television shows. He is often in print media and
has written over 700 op-eds published in major papers . In addition to
political and government issues, many of Bob’s op-eds call for drug-free
sports as well as lifetime fitness.
Bob has a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.A. in American
History from the University of Massachusetts.
Highlights: First Place, Ohio Conference Cross Country Relays,
1967 (first of 50 two-man teams from colleges throughout Ohio); 3rd,
New Jersey High School Prep School State Meet, 1964 cross-country,
and 3rd in prep state track mile 1965 (4:35.0, Bob’s Blair Academy thenschool record, also set Blair X-Course then-record); 1st sub-5 mile
taking first in 4:51 as HS sophomore to beat Lawrenceville School’s
runners on their home indoor track on a Saturday night in front of their
girlfriends after the same runners had swept Bob at Bob’s Blair
Academy in cross country…). PR’s (at Oberlin College, Ohio): Mile
4:26.5; half mile 1:56.9.
Masters highlights: 2nd place and 3rd place in several national
championships in mile and 1500 and steeplechase at various ages; and
organizationally, maximizing TV and newspaper coverage for masters
track national championships and USA world masters teams including
several New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today stories plus
ESPN/ABC/CBS/NBC/Fox TV coverage.