Card, who had watched five previous chiefs in action, had a couple of conditions for accepting the job. “ ‘First,’ ” he told Bush, “ ‘we have to have a very candid relationship. You have to be comfortable with me saying anything to you—and I will be comfortable with you saying anything to me.’ The second thing was, ‘As long as I’m your chief of staff I can’t be your friend.’ And then I said, ‘If you’re looking for more than one chief of staff at the same time, I don’t want to be one of them.’ ”
