The
gatekeepers
how the White House Chiefs of Staff define every presidency
Whipple, Chris
creator
text
nyu
2018
monographic
eng
385 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
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
Chris Whipple.
With a new chapter on Trump
n-us---
United States.
White House Office
Officials and employees
Casa Blanca (Washington, D.C.)
Historia
Presidents
United States
Staff
Presidentes
Estados Unidos
Personal
United States
Politics and government
Estados Unidos
Política y gobierno
JK 552 W573g 2018
973.920922
Gatekeepers
Whipple, Chris (Christopher C.), author.
New York : Crown, 2017
(DLC) 2017004130
9780804138260 (paperback)
0804138265 (paperback)
2016046233
DLC
170117
20250606134318.0
125162
eng