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
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