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Yet Clinton, when he first sat down two weeks before the election with Vice President Al Gore, chief of staff Leon Panetta and favored friend Vernon Jordan, insisted it was teamwork he wanted above all. Gore proposed Cohen for Defense, and Albright was an obvious choice for State. Colin Powell...
By 1994 Clinton had moved him over to deputy chief of staff, a hall monitor assigned the job of imposing order on a White House that sometimes seemed like a rainy Saturday at the Discovery Zone. He analyzed Clinton's schedule and deduced that a shocking amount of his time...
Bowles quickly earned a reputation for both rigor and grace. It was Bowles who coordinated the government's response to the Oklahoma City bombing, who integrated Morris into the White House when other top staff members were gunning for him in early 1995, and who negotiated Morris' resignation in the...
In a White House conspicuously short of addicted golfers, Bowles had special access to the President during his purest moments for reflection. The two of them would often leave the White House at 5:30 and play through sundown. "We've played the last hole in the dark many times...
The question now is whether those skills make him the right man for the job at this time. Outgoing chief Leon Panetta is a master legislator who knows his way around the Hill and knows how lawmakers want to be treated. Bowles has none of that personal experience or policy...