Tuttle previously worked in the White House during the Reagan administration as an assistant to the President in 1982, and director of presidential personnel in 1985.

[5] Both Tuttle and his predecessor William Stamps Farish III were both wealthy private citizens with personal and financial ties to the Bush family.

[6] Tuttle was the Ambassador to the United Kingdom during the U.S. Embassy's refusal to pay the London congestion charge.

In March 2006, the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, said that Tuttle was trying to "skive out of [paying] like some chiselling little crook".

[8] A survey published in 2007 showed that the United States owed £1.5 million in outstanding congestion charge payments.