The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency

by Chris Whipple

Dick Cheney, once the thirty-four-year-old

ransacked the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s

was taking office after a succession of failed presidents, done in by assassination,

Elevating the so-called DEFCON level of

says Favreau. “He’s so passionate and angry sometimes because he believes in all of the

otherwise, it doesn’t get paid. And so what we had in the Affordable Care Act