The gatekeepers : how the White House chiefs of staff define every presidency /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Whipple, Chris (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Broadway Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
Subjects:	United States. > White House Office > Officials and employees. United States. > White House Office Presidents > United States > Staff. United States > Politics and government. États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Executive Branch. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political. HISTORY > United States > 20th Century. HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General. Employees Politics and government Presidents > Staff United States Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

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.