Richard Friedman of Boston and Edgartown was named to President Obama’s Export Council last week, the only New Englander to be named to the council. Mr. Friedman, who owns the Charles and Liberty hotels in Boston, is a longtime summer resident of Edgartown where he owns a home on the Oyster Pond. The Friedman home was the Summer White House during consecutive years when President Bill Clinton and his family came to the Island for their summer vacation. The Export Council is tasked with advising the government in attempting to meet President Obama’s goal of doubling U.S. exports and tourism over five years. “I’m honored to be selected by the President to serve and have made it my personal goal to try to help our country’s tourism, hospitality, air transit industries,” Mr. Friedman said in a statement. The council consists of 13 business leaders, including Boeing chairman, president and chief executive officer Jim McNerney, Xerox Corporation chairman and chief executive officer Ursula Burns, Vermeer Corporation president and chief executive officer Mary Andringa, and Dow Corning Corporation chairman, president and chief executive officer Stephanie A. Burns.