Emanuel left a House leadership post--and the dream of becoming the first Jewish speaker--to become Obama's staff chief. His oft-caricatured style as the abrasive, hard-charging ...
In May, when Obama announced ambitious plans to require carmakers to produce more-efficient vehicles, Browner was assigned to explain the details. Insiders say that Browner, ...
DeParle, Obama's point person on health care reform, is well liked on both sides of the aisle as an evenhanded, calm, but forceful presence who ...
Sutphen has five rules for success, and the fifth one is, "Follow the people, not the job description." That may be what led her to ...
In picking Craig, the White House snagged a high-powered Washington lawyer whose career has included a lengthy stint as a defense lawyer at the blue-chip ...
Butts was a force in Washington well before Barack Obama, her Harvard Law School friend, came to the Senate, and she was well positioned to ...
There's a quote frozen in glass on Barnes's West Wing desk that she uses for motivation: "It is this belief in a power larger than ...
Higginbottom's journey from junior legislative assistant to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., to No. 2 in charge of domestic policy in the White House took just ...
Holdren is a leading advocate of a greater role for scientists in policy development, and he has worked for decades to get Washington to focus ...
Brown is the gatekeeper of the paper flow to Obama. "What ends up on his desk are the hard issues," she told National Journal. "Part ...
