20. David Rhodes Ben Rhodes

President, CBS News; Deputy National Security Advisor and speechwriter

After Sasha and Malia, the brothers Rhodes may be the most powerful siblings in Washington. On behalf of aspiring Power Parents everywhere, GQ went straight to the source: mom, Jane Rhodes.

Ok, so what did you put in their Wheaties?

In truth, they had a very ordinary childhood. They didn't travel the world and speak six languages. But they've always been very intense about what they did.

Powerful personalities tend to clash. Did they get along growing up?

They've always been very close—even though Ben's a Mets and Jets fan, and David is a Yankees and Giants fan. Probably the biggest difficulty was when David was at Fox and Ben was on the Obama campaign. If they could weather that, they can handle anything.

There must be news events where you see both of their work in action.

There was the night bin Laden was killed, when the announcers cut in to say that the President was going to make a live statement. We knew it must be something big. Then we laughed because we knew Ben would be working on the speech, and we watched it on CBS.

You must have been proud.

I emailed them both the next morning and said "There was a pretty decent chance your father and I would have been asleep. Someone could've called!"