Let's make this birthday one to remember.

50 years old (Born on September 15, 1974)

Happy Birthday, Sara Taylor! From handling White House politics like a pro, reporting directly to Karl Rove, and keeping the President's team in check, your legendary sense of humor and keen political instincts are second only to your ability to gracefully survive countless Oval Office meetings and endless strategy sessions. After all those years guiding presidential politics with diplomacy (and occasionally with coffee), you deserve a birthday fit for Capitol Hill royalty.

Here's wishing you another exceptional year filled with even greater achievements. May your next chapter be as impressively strategic, flawlessly executed—and infinitely more relaxing—than briefing George W. Bush on poll numbers before he's had his morning coffee!