Bowles refused. “I told him, ‘Hell no, I wasn’t going to fire him,’ ” he says. “The president would say, ‘Why not?’ And I’d say, ‘Because every time you come out of that Oval Office and you’ve got some new thing you want us to do, and I can’t get the bureaucracy to do it, you know what I do? I give it to Rahm. And two days later he comes back and it’s done! There are twenty dead people back there—but it’s done!’
