While many things in this White House were the same as they had always been, I also picked up on little things that indicated how differently this administration operated. Vice presidents are always publicly loyal to the president. That is part of the job. But, in my opinion, Vice President Pence sometimes overdid it. During task force meetings, he often said some version of “There are a lot of smart people around here, but we all know that the smartest person in the building is upstairs.” He was of course talking about the man sitting behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.
