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“It has the most awesome responsibilities of any corporation in the world, the largest budget of any corporation in the world, and the largest number of employees. Yet the entire senior management structure and team have to be formed in a period of seventy-five days.”
― The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
― The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
“People ask me if it's like that television show The West Wing," says Erskine Bowles, Bill Clinton's second chief. "But that doesn't begin to capture the velocity. In an average day you would deal with Bosnia, Northern Ireland, the budget, taxation, the environment-and then you'd have lunch! And then on Friday you would say, 'Thank God-only two more working days until Monday.”
― The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
― The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
“Our job is not to do the work of government, but to get the work out to where it belongs—out to the Departments,” Haldeman began. He continued: “Nothing goes to the president that is not completely staffed out first, for accuracy and form, for lateral coordination, checked for related material, reviewed by competent staff concerned with that area—and all that is essential for Presidential attention.”
― The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
― The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
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