about that. It could make it stronger, you know.’ ” Reich, who would become Clinton’s secretary of labor, sensed trouble. “The chief of staff cannot be a dear old friend,” he remembers thinking when McLarty accepted the job. “It’s too difficult for the chief to tell the president no. It’s also difficult for the chief of staff and his boss to see and understand clearly their respective roles and not to let the past intrude on the present.”
