David Cahn:  

Updated August 16, 2020 My Home: I live on more than 9 acres in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. That's out in the country, but only 20 miles from the White House, just past Andrews Air Force Base. I don't keep it up as well by myself as my wife and I used to, but I love the privacy and the very different sort of neighborhood. I've got a nice swimming pool and spa, so y'all come, y'hear! My Kids: I have two kids from my first marriage, a boy and a girl (now a man and a woman), whom I raised by myself as a custodial single parent for about 15 years. In 2003 I adopted my late (second) wife's two daughters, whom I helped raise from their childhood and who were then in their mid to late twenties! I am proud of all of them. Among them, they have given me 10 wonderful grandchildren, including the 2 then-newborn baby boys my son and daughter-in-law adopted 10 months apart in 2000-2001. I am very lucky. My Career: I am an attorney and an economist, retired from the federal government after about 20 on-again/off-again years, with more than that in the private sector and with a territorial government. I still maintain a small law practice and lose money every month on my real estate investments. Bad timing on my part, but I hope the market will turn back up after a bit of pain. My last federal position was as Executive Secretary of the US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), running the organization that manages the Secretary's correspondence. I have been a US treaty negotiator, represented the US in international meetings on missile technology control, served as general counsel of a small federal commission on international religious freedom, been a US diplomat for 2 years in Afghanistan and 1 year in Mexico, a Congressional staff member, and a member of the governor's cabinet on Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, among other government jobs. Many of these were political appointments under President Reagan and both Bushes. I started my career in my parents' newspaper (Massapequa Post) and printing business and I've been in and out of private law or consulting practice several times. I also worked in the Pentagon in 1968 just where the plane later hit ...Expand for more