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When Bill Clinton first came to Washington in 1993, he brought his kindergarten friend Mack McLarty with him as his right hand. That didn't work out very well. Four years later, his new chief of staff, Erskine Bowles, is a man he first met in 1992, and bonded with...
Bowles' appointment--and the manner in which it was made--is the clearest ideological statement about Clinton's second term since his election-night promise to govern from "the vital center." Clinton has turned over the most important job in the White House to a pro-business centrist who pushed...
Clinton and Bowles met four years ago, when Bowles volunteered himself to the campaign the day Clinton lost the Connecticut primary. Bowles soon became a heavyweight fund raiser in North Carolina, where he was a successful investment banker. He had been to Washington only a couple of times in his...
In the Yellow Oval Room of the White House residence, Clinton had been convening weekly strategy sessions that included members of the team. The meetings were small and secret, attended by Clinton, Morris, Gore, Schoen, Ickes, chief of staff Leon Panetta, senior adviser George Stephanopoulos and then deputy chief of...
Today, Clinton named Charlotte investment banker and Washington outsider Erskine Bowles as his new chief of staff. Leon Panetta is leaving that post. Laura D'Andrea Tyson will abandon her post as head of the National Economic Council. Two other high-ranking aides, George Stephanopolous and Rahm Emanuel, are also...