LEADER 05404nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910818833203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8157-9822-9 035 $a(CKB)111087027974582 035 $a(OCoLC)70725438 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10026228 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000271292 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11215448 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271292 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10294896 035 $a(PQKB)10170971 035 $a(OCoLC)954757506 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse73374 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3004298 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10026228 035 $a(OCoLC)53706029 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3004298 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027974582 100 $a20000322d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe White House staff $einside the West Wing and beyond /$fBradley H. Patterson Jr 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWashington, DC $cBrookings Institution Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (503 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8157-6951-2 311 $a0-8157-6950-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 437-471) and index. 327 $aFront Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Outside and Inside the White House -- Outside the Gates: A No-Consensus Society -- Inside the Gates: Alternatives for Organizing a White House -- The Not-So-Bashful Bureaucracy -- The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs -- To Summarize and Analyze . . . Refine the Conflicting Views": The Domestic Policy Staff -- The National Economic Council -- The "Just-Us Department": The Counsel to the President -- Legislative Affairs: "An Ambulatory Bridge across a Constitutional Gulf -- Equidistant in an Adversarial Relationship: The Press Secretary -- The Continuing Campaign: The Office of Communications -- Judson Welliver and His Successors: The Speechwriting Office -- Representing Interests and Building Coalitions: The Office of Public Liaison -- Achievements versus Activities: The Office of Presidential Scheduling -- Energizer for Federalism: The Office of Intergovernmental Affairs -- Supporting Political Central: The Office of Political Affairs and Independent Political Consultants -- Control All the Way Down: The Office of Presidential Personnel -- Manager of Apparently Effortless Success: The Advance Office -- First-Magnitude Czars: Special Assistants for Special Purposes -- First Special Counselor: The President's Spouse -- Second Special Counselor: The Vice President -- Third Special Counselor: The Vice President's Spouse -- The President's Centripetal Offices -- Part Three: The Professional White House -- Serving the Presidency: The Professional Staffs of the Modern White House -- Part Four: White House Service in the Years Ahead -- The Essence of White House Service: Looking to the Future -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover. 330 $aShrouded in anonymity, protected by executive privilege, but with no legal or constitutional authority of their own, the 5,900 people in 125 offices collectively known as the "White House staff" assist the chief executive by shaping, focusing, and amplifying presidential policy. Why is the staff so large? How is it organized and what do those 125 offices actually do? In this sequel to his critically appraised 1988 book, Ring of Power, Bradley H. Patterson Jr.--a veteran of three presidential administrations--takes us inside the closely guarded turf of the White House. In a straightforward narrative free of partisan or personal agendas, Patterson provides an encyclopedic description of the contemporary White House staff and its operations. He illustrates the gradual shift in power from the cabinet departments to the staff and, for the first time in presidential literature, presents an accounting for the total budget of the modern White House. White House staff members control everything from the monumental to the mundane. They prepare the president for summit conferences, but also specify who sits on Air Force One. They craft the language for the president to use on public occasions--from a State of the Union Address to such "Rose Garden rubbish" as the pre-Thanksgiving pardon for the First Turkey. The author provides an entertaining yet in-depth overview of these responsibilities. Patterson also illuminates the astounding degree to which presidents personally conduct American diplomacy and personally supervise U.S. military actions. The text is punctuated with comments by senior White House aides and by old Washington hands whose careers go back more than half a century. The book provides not only a comprehensive key to the offices and activities that make the White House work, but also the feeling of belonging to that exclusive membership 330 8 $ainside the West Wing. 606 $aPresidents$zUnited States$xStaff 615 0$aPresidents$xStaff. 676 $a352.23/7/0973 700 $aPatterson$b Bradley H$g(Bradley Hawkes),$f1921-$01707728 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818833203321 996 $aThe White House staff$94124997 997 $aUNINA