“The President’s Chief of Staff: Lessons Learned,” James Pfiffner put Sununu in the company of Sherman Adams, H. R. Haldeman, and Donald Regan—each of them proof that “a domineering chief of staff will almost certainly lead to trouble”: …strong chiefs have learned the hard way that serving the president means being able to cultivate other constituencies for his use. Sununu did not recognize this, and thus felt free to alienate Congress, the Cabinet, the press, and interest groups as well as his White House subordinates. It is as if his attitude were “I am so powerful that I do not have to be
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