The thing about power in Washington is that it’s so fleeting.
One day you’re firmly planted in the center of the universe, and the next you’re teaching at a college or holding forth on cable.
There’s no appointed job as influential as White House chief of staff, yet the average person probably can’t name most of the men – and they are all men – who have held the post in recent decades.
While a handful of them were well-known before taking the job, most are insiders who wield their clout behind the scenes, until they either burn out or their president gets tired of them.
Jeff Zients, the then White House Covid-19 response czar, speaks during a press briefing at the White House where he spoke about a pause in issuing the Johnson & Johnson Janssen Covid-19 vaccine on April 13, 2021, in Washington, DC.
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