“He had this chief of staff office, but he was hardly ever there because he didn’t want people calling him to make decisions,” says Rubenstein. “So he would go hide out in other offices in the EOB [Executive Office Building] or elsewhere so people couldn’t get access to him.” Jordan continued doing what he did best: writing memos to the president. Jordan’s deputy, Landon Butler, recalls Cheney’s advice to his boss: “ ‘Ham, the chief of staff cannot write in this office. You can’t sit down for three days and work on a memo. Because everything backs up if you do that.’ And that struck me as
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