staffer, adviser, confidante, confidant, lawmaker, deputy, emissary, speechwriter, lieutenant, diplomat, civil servant, official, legislator, envoy, bureaucrat, functionary, lobbyist, assistant, bodyguard, counselor, appointee, secretary, acolyte, colleague, politician, negotiator, strategist, consultant, senator, intern, administrator, spinmeister, investment banker, loyalist, parliamentarian, troubleshooter, undersecretary, lawyer, policymaker, associate, military attache, insider, congressman, spokesman, reporter, teacher, correspondent, prosecutor, fixer, ally, bill clinton, underling, minister, veep, protege, investigator, pollster, liaison, dealmaker, officer, inner circle, elder, acquaintance, politico, bigwig, classmate, courtier, colonel, friend, consigliere, moneyman, administration, backbencher, planner, brigadier general, crony, henchman, biographer, powerbroker, paraprofessional, coordinator, officeholder, bagman, servant, schoolteacher, employee, inspector, assemblyman, influence peddler, paramour, educator, honcho, commander, nurse, delegate, campaigner, chauffeur, ambassador, chief, accomplice, schoolmate, clergyman, aides, assistants, advisor, secretaries, staffers, advisers, advisors, instructor, adjutant, executive, aid, brevet, luftwaffe, 2, abenaki, boer, brigadier, cholera, constitutionalist, convalescent, forestry, garibaldian, hussite, incapable, infantry, insurgent, marechal, nva, othoman, prisoner

adjutant general, nurse's aide, nursing aide

discreet

help, helper, military officer, supporter

aide-de-camp, auxiliary