[2] At age 26, she worked under James A. Baker III in Gerald Ford’s unsuccessful 1976 presidential campaign.

[3][4] In 1980, she was one of a team of relatively younger aides assembled by Baker to run Bush’s campaign for the presidential nomination.

[6] When Reagan won the presidency and Baker became White House Chief of Staff, Tutwiler asked to accompany him, saying, "Until we figure it out, can’t I just be your jack of all trades?

[10] In June 1989, when protests erupted in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, the Bush administration was concerned that a strong condemnation from the U.S. might damage the rapprochement with China which had begun during the Nixon administration, and impair the ability of the U.S. to use China as a counterweight in its geopolitical struggle with the Soviet Union.

[13] It was Tutwiler who urged Baker to invite Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze to accompany him on a trip to his ranch in Wyoming, which would provide an opportunity for the two men to become better acquainted.

[14] President Bush met Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev for a summit in Malta on December 2–3, 1989.

Tutwiler was given the task of leading "the government's public-relations drive to build a favorable impression abroad.

Her boss at the NYSE, John Thain, later brought her on board as head of communications at Merrill Lynch in December 2007 and then at CIT Group in August 2010.