“The government is bureaucratic, but the White House isn’t,” he told the group, selling them hard on the move to D.C. “If I have to call your spouse or your children, I will.” Everyone laughed. “I’m not joking,” he replied. “As the president is talking to us,” Gelobter recalled, “all I can think is: ‘You have nothing more important to do with your time than talk to us? This is that important to you?’ My mother always said, when you’re interviewing for jobs, pick the company where the highest-ranking person talked to you. That’s how you know they’re actually invested in what you’ll be doing.
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