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• Minnesotan in line as the presidents chief of staff WASHINGTON - President Obama is planning to elevate a key national security deputy, Denis McDonough, to White House chief of staff, administration officials said Wednesday, making perhaps his closest foreign policy adviser the gatekeeper to the Oval Office. Though Obama has not made a final decision, aides said, they expect an announcement early next week. McDonough would succeed Jacob Lew, another close aide whom Obama has nominated as Treasury secretary. It would place a national security expert in a job that will require confronting a range of thorny domestic issues, including budget negotiations, gun violence and immigration. Its a new set of challenges for him, said...Review: Minnesotan in line as the presidents chief of staff
• Minnesotan in line as the presidents chief of staff WASHINGTON - President Obama is planning to elevate a key national security deputy, Denis McDonough, to White House chief of staff, administration officials said Wednesday, making perhaps his closest foreign policy adviser the gatekeeper to the Oval Office. Though Obama has not made a final decision, aides said, they expect an announcement early next week. McDonough would succeed Jacob Lew, another close aide whom Obama has nominated as Treasury secretary. It would place a national security expert in a job that will require confronting a range of thorny domestic issues, including budget negotiations, gun violence and immigration. Its a new set of challenges for him, said...Review: Minnesotan in line as the presidents chief of staff
• All 5 Living US Presidents Attend Dedication of Bush Library WASHINGTON, April 25 (RIA Novosti) – US President Barack Obama on Thursday joined the four living former presidents and leaders from around the world at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, Texas. The dedication ceremony was the first time that the elite club of former and incumbent US presidents have gotten together since they met at the White House in January 2009, just prior to...Review: All 5 Living US Presidents Attend Dedication of Bush Library
• Obama to name foreign policy aide McDonough as chief of staff WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday will name veteran foreign policy aide Denis McDonough as his next White House chief of staff, replacing Jack Lew, as part of an overhaul of his senior staff, a White House official said. Obama will announce the appointment of McDonough, who worked on Obamas 2008 presidential campaign and is now a deputy national security adviser, at 12:10 p.m. EST at the White House, the official said....Review: Obama to name foreign policy aide McDonough as chief of staff
• Gatekeepers in disarray SULPHUROUS politics surrounding asylum seeker policy and the illusory pursuit of ways to turn back the boats have restricted rational...Review: Gatekeepers in disarray