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...goodwill to last for long. The position is not one for anybody who craves job security. Typically, chiefs of staff burn out or are eased out in less than two-and-a-half years. The last one to survive an entire presidency was John R. Steelman, a onetime hobo who held the post for six years under Harry Truman, at a time when the staff was much smaller and the job title was "assistant to the President of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Enforcer Named Emanuel | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...hobo. Strive for the hobo smell: dig through your laundry basket and choose the items with the most holes...

Author: By Malin S. Von euler-hogan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 List: Halloween Costumes | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...mole-man just the underground version of the hobo? Not at all. Hobos came to represent the closest thing in America culture to Tolkien's elves, an unknowable, mysterious race of people who have a completely different world view and want nothing to do with us. They embodied a chaos that America didn't want to acknowledge or be a part of. Mole-men are creatures of pure enlightenment. They read Voltaire and Rousseau. They championed reason and logic long before the surface world did, they took on the scientific method. And they are really the foundational, dare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Hodgman | 10/21/2008 | See Source »

...think the election will turn out? Well, I am now a member of the Hollywood elite. I have seen the final script, and I don't want to give you any spoilers, it's going to be pretty exciting. It turns out that one of the candidates is a hobo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Hodgman | 10/21/2008 | See Source »

...Biden? As somebody who has ridden the trains, gone to work on Amtrack back and forth, back and forth, that whole thing, he very well may be the first hobo member of our executive branch. (See pictures of Joe Biden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Hodgman | 10/21/2008 | See Source »

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