Education
After the Ford Administration, McFarland studied at Oxford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with concentrations on nuclear weapons, China and the Soviet Union.
secretary of defense Deputy Assistant
After the Ford Administration, McFarland studied at Oxford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with concentrations on nuclear weapons, China and the Soviet Union.
She served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under President Ronald Reagan from 1982 to 1985. She also served as a speech writer to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. She unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for the United States. Senate in New York in 2006 and is currently a Fox News contributor on foreign policy and national security issues.
McFarland is a graduate of George Washington University.
Her government career began while she was a freshman at George Washington University, working part-time in the White House Situation Room typing the President"s Daily Brief. McFarland ran as a Republican in the New York United States Senate election, 2006, for the seat then held by Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.
She was defeated by former Yonkers mayor John Spencer. McFarland had never held elected office.
Senator Clinton, ultimately, succeeded in her bid for re-election.
lieutenant was reported in late 2012 that, as a Fox News analyst headed to Afghanistan in spring 2011, McFarland carried a message from Roger Ailes to commanding General David Petraeus encouraging Petraeus to run for president if President Barack Obama did not offer Petraeus the position of head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Obama later offered Petraeus the top Central Intelligence Agency job, Petraeus accepted it and no Petraeus presidential campaign developed. McFarland responded to the 2012 report by writing that Ailes was "joking" in sending his message and that "Petraeus and I were having fun" engaging in "the kind of idle speculation that happens in every campaign season".
She also raised the questions of how the off-the-record conversation was taped and how the tape was then released 18 months later, writing they were "more interesting" than the ones considered in the initial report.
She spent seven years in the West Wing of the White House, working her way up to become a key member of Henry Kissinger"s National Security Council Staff.