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"Chief of Staff to the President is perhaps the most important political appointment in our nation's government. Aside from handling the myriad of day-to-day details that keep the White House running, the Chief of Staff is often the President's closest adviser and gatekeeper - anyone who wants access to the Oval Office goes through the Chief of Staff."
"President Lyndon Johnson bestrode the American political scene as a colossus of energy, ambition,...
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"Horace Busby was one of LBJ's most trusted advisers. In The Thirty-first of March he offers an indelible portrait of a president and a presidency at a time of crisis, spanning twenty years of a close working and personal relationship between the two men." "It was Busby's job to "put a little Churchill in it" whenever Johnson wanted to heighten his oratorical effects, and his skill as a speechwriter earned him a position of respect on Johnson's staff...
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Young Sichan Siv was targeted by the Khmer Rouge during the Cambodian genocide because he was a university graduate. His mother told him to run and "never give up hope!" Captured and put to work in a slave labor camp, Siv knew it was only a matter of time before he would be worked to death--or killed outright. After a daring escape and a desperate run for freedom through the jungle, Siv finally came upon a farmer who said, "Welcome to Thailand." He...
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When acclaimed Washington Post writer Wil Haygood had an early hunch that Obama would win the 2008 election, he thought he'd highlight the singular moment by exploring the life of someone who had come of age when segregation was so widespread, so embedded in the culture, as to make the very thought of a black president inconceivable. He struck gold when he tracked down Eugene Allen, a butler who had served no fewer than eight presidents, from Harry...
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