Examining how the White House works-or doesn't-before and after
Trump Donald Trump has reinvented the presidency, transforming it
from a well-oiled if sometimes cumbersome institution into what has
often seemed to be a one-man show. But even Trump's unorthodox
presidency requires institutional support, from a constantly
rotating White House staff and cabinet who have sought to carry
out-and sometimes resist-the president's direct orders and comply
with his many tweets. Nonetheless, the Trump White House still
exhibits many features of its predecessors over the past eight
decades. When Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated, the White
House staff numbered fewer than fifty people, and most federal
department were lightly staffed as well. As the United States
became a world power, the staff of the Executive Office increased
twentyfold, and the staffing of federal agencies blossomed
comparably. In the fourth edition of Organizing the Presidency, a
landmark volume examining the presidency as an institution, Stephen
Hess and James P. Pfiffner argue that the successes and failures of
presidents from Roosevelt through Trump have resulted in large part
from how the president deployed and used White House staffers and
other top officials responsible for carrying out Oval Office
policy. Drawing on a wealth of analysis and insight, Organizing the
Presidency addresses best practices for managing a presidency that
is itself a bureaucracy.
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