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Whipple, Chris

The gatekeepers : how the White House Chiefs of Staff define every presidency / Chris Whipple. - 385 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

With a new chapter on Trump

Introduction: "I brought my pillow and my blankie"
"The Lord High Executioner": H.R. Haldeman and Richard Nixon
"Beware the spokes of the wheel": Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and Gerald Ford
"The smartest man in the room": Hamilton Jordan, Jack Watson, and Jimmy Carter
"One hell of a chief of staff ": James A. Baker III and Ronald Reagan
"Don't hang up on the First Lady": Donald Regan, Howard H. Baker Jr., Kenneth Duberstein, and Ronald Reagan
"The prime minister": John Sununu, Samuel Skinner, James A. Baker III, and George H.W. Bush
"An iron fist in a velvet glove": Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty, Leon Panetta, Erskine Bowles, John Podesta, and Bill Clinton
"The decider": Andrew Card, Joshua Bolten, and George W. Bush
"Between bad and worse": Rahm Emanuel, William Daley, Jacob Lew, Denis McDonough, and Barack Obama

ISBN: 9780804138260 (paperback) 0804138265 (paperback)

LCCN: 2016046233

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. White House Office --Officials and employees.
Casa Blanca (Washington, D.C.)--Historia

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Presidents--Staff.--United States
Presidentes --Personal --Estados Unidos

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Politics and government.
Estados Unidos--Política y gobierno

LC Class. No.: JK 552 / W573g 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 973.920922