The gatekeepers : how the White House Chiefs of Staff define every presidency / Chris Whipple.

Summary:

Examines how the American presidency has hinged on the effectiveness of the White House chiefs of staff, drawing on interviews with all seventeen living chiefs of staff and two former presidents to reveal how their decisions have influenced the nation.

Record details

ISBN: 1524736295
ISBN: 9781524736293
Physical Description: 571 pages (large print): illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First large print edition.
Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Random House Inc, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-530) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 -- Epilogue.