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...last thing that I think we're looking for at this juncture is advice on fiscal integrity or ethics from Karl Rove.' DAVID AXELROD, senior adviser to Obama...
...perfect choice to guide the health-care reform that Obama promised on the campaign trail. "I accept his decision with sadness and regret," said Obama, who spoke with Daschle by phone on Tuesday and was said to be surprised by the withdrawal, according to White House senior adviser David Axelrod. "Tom Daschle has devoted his life to public service and health-care reform so that every American has access to health care they can afford. I had hoped that he could bring this passion and expertise to bear to finally achieve that goal, which is so essential to the progress...
...clear who Obama will nominate to replace Daschle or whether that person will hold a dual post in the White House as health-care czar, as Daschle had insisted upon. "There's a lot of impetus and momentum behind health reform, and it will continue," Axelrod said. "We'll miss Senator Daschle's leadership, but the issue has great power of its own. People feel it in their own lives, businesses feel it, and it's part of our approach to helping this economy recover...
...briefers, asking him to orchestrate work-ups each morning on the deteriorating economy. Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman, refers to him in briefings as "Dr. Summers," with a deference that suggests Summers has powers out of science fiction. Stopped in a White House hallway in late January, David Axelrod, Obama's closest political aide, speaks with something akin to spiritual gratitude about having an intellectual like Summers around. "Quite frankly, I'm not sure we would have gotten him but for the fact that we have a crisis that is equal to his talents," Axelrod says. Summers, asked...
...running, he stayed on the sidelines during the long and contentious Democratic primary race between Obama and Hillary Clinton, though many observers suspected his sympathies lay with the Chicagoan. Once that battle was over, Emanuel quickly established himself as one of Obama's closest advisers. "He was very helpful," Axelrod recalls. "They have a really candid but respectful relationship. [Obama] knows he can count on Rahm for unvarnished advice." By midsummer, Axelrod says, the President-to-be was privately telling advisers that Emanuel would make an excellent White House chief of staff "if we win this thing...