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The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions--and inactions--have defined the course of our country What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president of the United States--as did Donald Rumsfeld, Leon Panetta, and a relative handful of others. The chiefs of staff, often referred to as the gatekeepers, wield tremendous power in Washington and beyond; they decide who is allowed to see the president, negotiate with Congress to push POTUSs agenda, and--most crucially--enjoy unparalleled access to the leader of the free world. Each chief can make or break an administration, and each president reveals himself by the chief he picks. Through extensive, intimate interviews with all seventeenliving chiefs and two former presidents, award-winning journalist and producer Chris Whipple pulls back the curtain on this unique fraternity. In doing so, he revises our understanding of presidential history, showing us how James Bakers expert managing of the White House, the press, and Capitol Hill paved the way for the Reagan Revolution--and, conversely, how Watergate, the Iraq War, and even the bungled Obamacare rollout mighthave been prevented by a more effective chief. Filled with shrewd analysis and never-before-reported details, The Gatekeepersoffers an essential portrait of the toughest job in Washington--;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 -- Dont 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.

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Additional Praise for Chris Whipples THE GATEKEEPERS I loved The Gatekeepers - photo 1
Additional Praise for Chris Whipples
THE GATEKEEPERS

I loved The Gatekeepers! The reporting is superb, the writing engaging and wonderfully fair-minded. Unbuttoned at last, these chiefs have wonderful stories to tell. This book serves as a compellingly readable thank-you note to a motley crew of policy nerds, fixers, maniacs, and soon-to-be exbest friends of the president who have lost sleepand probably several years off their livesin the service of the White House, and of their country.

Alex Beam, author of The Feud, Gracefully Insane, and American Crucifixion

Chris Whipple is one of our eras most accomplished multimedia journalists. Drawing on access to senior officials most reporters can only dream of, his documentary The Spymasters brought Americans inside the U.S. intelligence community as never before. Now, Whipple has done it again, exploring the inner workings of the last eight presidenciesfrom Nixon to Obamathrough exclusive interviews with current and former White House chiefs of staff. The Gatekeepers is first-rate history, as told by the men who lived it to a man who knows, with supreme assurance, how to write it.

James Rosen, Fox News chief Washington correspondent and author of The Strong Man and Cheney One on One

History, drama, intrigue. Every page is engaging. Required reading for every Washington power player.

David Friend, Vanity Fair, author of Watching the World Change

A vibrant narrative of the real-world West Wingconfident and fast-pacedIn this page-turner of a history, readers will discover new facets of historical events that they felt they already knew.

Publishers Weekly

Copyright 2017 by Christopher C Whipple All rights reserved Published in the - photo 2Copyright 2017 by Christopher C Whipple All rights reserved Published in the - photo 3

Copyright 2017 by Christopher C. Whipple

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Whipple, Chris (Christopher C.), author.

Title: The gatekeepers : how the White House chiefs of staff define every presidency / Chris Whipple.

Description: New York : Crown, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016046233 (print) | LCCN 2017004130 (ebook) | ISBN 9780804138246 (hardback) | ISBN 9780804138260 (paperback) | ISBN 9780804138253 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: PresidentsUnited StatesStaff. | United States. White House OfficeOfficials and employees. | United StatesPolitics and government. | BISAC: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Executive Branch. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. | HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.

Classification: LCC JK552 .W55 2017 (print) | LCC JK552 (ebook) | DDC 973.92092/2dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016046233

ISBN9780804138246

Ebook ISBN9780804138253

Cover design by Christopher Brand

Cover photographs by (top) David Hume Kennerly, (center) Courtesy Ronald Reagan Library, (bottom) The White House

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Contents

Introduction
I Brought My Pillow and My Blankie

1: The Lord High Executioner
H. R. Haldeman and Richard Nixon

2: Beware the Spokes of the Wheel
Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and Gerald Ford

3: The Smartest Man in the Room
Hamilton Jordan, Jack Watson, and Jimmy Carter

4: One Hell of a Chief of Staff
James A. Baker III and Ronald Reagan

5: Dont Hang Up on the First Lady
Donald Regan, Howard H. Baker Jr., Kenneth Duberstein, and Ronald Reagan

6: The Prime Minister
John Sununu, Samuel Skinner, James A. Baker III, and George H. W. Bush

7: An Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove
Thomas F. Mack McLarty, Leon Panetta, Erskine Bowles, John Podesta, and Bill Clinton

8: The Decider
Andrew Card, Joshua Bolten, and George W. Bush

9: Between Bad and Worse
Rahm Emanuel, William Daley, Jacob Lew, Denis McDonough, and Barack Obama

You have to be the person that says no. Youve got to be the son of a bitch who basically tells somebody what the president cant tell him.

Leon Panetta, chief of staff to Bill Clinton

Somebodys got to be in charge Somebodys got to be the go-to guy who can go - photo 4Somebodys got to be in charge Somebodys got to be the go-to guy who can go - photo 5

Somebodys got to be in charge. Somebodys got to be the go-to guy who can go into the Oval Office and deliver a very tough message to the president. You cant do that if you got eight or nine guys sitting around saying, Well, you go tell him.

Dick Cheney, chief of staff to Gerald Ford

If its between good and bad somebody else will deal with it Everything that - photo 6If its between good and bad somebody else will deal with it Everything that - photo 7

If its between good and bad, somebody else will deal with it. Everything that gets into the Oval Office is between bad and worse.

Rahm Emanuel, chief of staff to Barack Obama

R ahm Emanuel was so cold he could see his breath as he crossed the White House - photo 8R ahm Emanuel was so cold he could see his breath as he crossed the White House - photo 9

R ahm Emanuel was so cold he could see his breath as he crossed the White House parking lot and entered the West Wing lobby. It was December 5, 2008, an unusually frigid morning in Washington, D.C. But it wasnt the weather that sent a chill through Emanuel; it was the unbelievably daunting challenge that lay ahead.

In just six weeks Emanuel would become White House chief of staff to Barack Obama, the forty-fourth president of the United States. But for more than a month, he had watched in astonishment as the world they were about to inherit was turned upside down. The U.S. economy was teetering on the edge of another Great Depression. Creditthe lifeblood of the world economywas frozen. The entire auto industry was on the brink of collapse. Two bloody wars were mired in stalemate. There was more than a little truth, Emanuel thought, to the headline in The Onion: Black Man Given Nations Worst Job. The stiletto-tongued infighter, former senior adviser to Bill Clinton, and congressman from Illinois felt apprehensive. I brought my pillow and my blankie, he would later joke, looking back at that dark morning when the fate of the new administration seemed to hang in the balance. The truth was, Rahm Emanuel was scared.

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