The Nerve Center - Lessons in Governing from the White House Chiefs of Staff (Hardcover)

In what James A. Baker III has called the ""worst job in Washington,"" the chief of staff orchestrates the president's conduct of the U.S. government. He holds the unique responsibility to magnify the time, reach, and voice of the president of the United States. ""You need a filter, a person that you have total confidence in who works so closely with you that in effect he is almost an alter ego,"" Gerald Ford has said. In this volume, resulting from the Washington Forum on the Role of the White House Chief of Staff, held in 2000 in Washington, D.C., twelve of the fifteen men who have held the office of chief of staff discuss among themselves and with a select group of participants the challenges, achievements, and failures of their time in that role. Their purpose is to find lessons in governing that will help future chiefs of staff prepare to assume the office and organize the staffs they will lead. These pages of frank and uncensored discussion present in question-and-answer format the voices of the chiefs of staff as they discuss the transition from campaign to governance, the reelection drive every four years, and ultimately, the closing out of an administration. The group also addresses the place of the White House chief of staff within the larger governing community of the Executive Branch, Congress, interest groups, and the press. The American White House sits at the nerve center of world history, and at the core of this nerve center, a massive bureaucratic operation exists to process the flow of information and policy. Because the White House chief of staff manages that operation, to ignore its requirements risks presidential fate itself and indeed, the fate of the republic.

General

Imprint:	Texas A & M University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Presidency & Leadership
Release date:	August 2004
First published:	August 2004
Editors:	Terry Sullivan
Foreword by:	James A. Baker
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-58544-349-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > General Promotions
LSN:	1-58544-349-2
Barcode:	9781585443499

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