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On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Chris Lu <[email protected]> wrote:
> NYT: Building a White House Team Before the Election Is Decided
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> By PETER BAKER and JACKIE CALMES
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> WASHINGTON — With the economy in tatters at home and two wars still raging
> abroad, Senator Barack Obama's team is preparing for a fast start, should he
> win the election, to what could be the most challenging and volatile
> transition between presidents in 75 years.
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> Mr. Obama's advisers are sifting résumés, compiling policy options and
> discussing where to hold his first news conference as president-elect.
> Democrats say Mr. Obama hopes to name key members of his White House,
> economic and security teams soon after the election. His transition chief
> has even drafted a sample Inaugural Address.
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> Presidential nominees typically start preparing for transitions before the
> election, but Mr. Obama's plans appear more extensive than in the past and
> more advanced than those of Senator John McCain, his Republican opponent.
> Mr. McCain has also assigned confidants to prepare for a transition but
> instructed them to limit their activities as he tries to rescue his
> foundering campaign, Republicans said.
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> Already the capital is buzzing with discussion about who would fill top
> positions. Obama advisers mention Tom Daschle, the former Senate majority
> leader, as a possible White House chief of staff, and Timothy F. Geithner,
> president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as Treasury secretary. To
> demonstrate bipartisanship, advisers said Mr. Obama might ask two members of
> President Bush's cabinet to stay, including Defense Secretary Robert M.
> Gates.
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> Mr. McCain might also want Mr. Gates to stay, according to Republicans close
> to the campaign, or he might reach beyond the party by tapping Senator
> Joseph I. Lieberman, the Connecticut Democrat turned independent, to head
> the Pentagon or the State Department. Republicans said possible Treasury
> secretaries include John A. Thain, the chief executive of Merrill Lynch, and
> Robert B. Zoellick, the president of the World Bank. And some see former
> Navy Secretary John F. Lehman as chief of staff.
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> No Time to Wait
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> Neither campaign would publicly discuss its transition planning for fear of
> appearing presumptuous with little more than a week to go before voters
> render their judgment. But as the nation braces to change leaders for the
> first time since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, White House officials and
> independent analysts said it was especially imperative for both campaigns to
> be prepared because of the acute economic and national security threats
> confronting the country.
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> "The stakes are higher than ever," said Joseph W. Hagin, who helped steer
> Mr. Bush's transition eight years ago and then served as deputy White House
> chief of staff until last summer. "You don't have a lot of time, especially
> today. There's not much time for a shallow learning curve. It's very steep."
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> The handover from Mr. Bush to his successor was already shaping up as the
> first wartime transition in 40 years, and the White House has instituted new
> policies to smooth the process. The collapse of Wall Street only heightened
> the urgency, making this potentially the most tumultuous change of power
> since Franklin D. Roosevelt took over from Herbert Hoover in the throes of
> the Great Depression in 1933.
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> Both campaigns have been forced to recalibrate their post-election thinking
> and consider how involved the president-elect should be in asserting
> leadership in the 77 days between the election and the Jan. 20 inauguration.
> In setting economic policy, Mr. Bush would presumably be willing to defer to
> some degree to Mr. McCain should he win; the Democratic Congress would
> presumably follow Mr. Obama's lead.
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> Mr. Obama has already signaled support for a lame-duck Congressional package
> of public works spending, aid to cities and states and tax rebates for
> workers. Democrats close to his campaign anticipate that he would not wait
> for the inauguration to weigh in on economic policy in other ways as well.
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> "His inclination is very much going to be to try to help shape the direction
> of policy" with the Bush administration, rather than "just let them stew in
> it until Jan. 20," said a senior adviser, who insisted on anonymity to
> discuss internal deliberations.
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> Still, if he does win, Mr. Obama has to be careful about going too far
> before he actually takes office, as he seemed to acknowledge the other day.
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> "We are going to have one president at a time until Jan. 20, when the new
> president is sworn in," he said after meeting with advisers in Richmond, Va.
> "So, you know, there is always a transition period. I don't want to get too
> much ahead of ourselves."
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> And Mr. McCain has been quick to accuse Mr. Obama of overconfidence.
> "Senator Obama is measuring the drapes," he said on the campaign trail the
> other day, as he often has.
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> Reflection of Campaigns
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> Interviews with dozens of Republicans and Democrats over the past two weeks
> suggest that the transition efforts mirror the campaigns — where Mr. Obama's
> is methodical and highly regimented, Mr. McCain's is more tightly held and
> seat of the pants.
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> Mr. Obama's transition team is led by a former White House chief of staff,
> John D. Podesta, who has been preparing for the task at the research
> organization he runs, the Center for American Progress, since long before it
> was clear who would win his party's nomination. Two longtime advisers to
> Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., the vice-presidential nominee — Edward Kaufman
> and Mark H. Gitenstein — are serving as his representatives to the team,
> although Mr. Biden is said to be so superstitious that he refuses to discuss
> the transition.
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> Mr. Podesta has been mapping out the transition so systematically that he
> has already written a draft Inaugural Address for Mr. Obama, which he
> published this summer in a book called "The Power of Progress." The speech
> calls for rebuilding a "grand alliance" with the rest of the world, bringing
> troops home from Iraq, recommitting to the war in Afghanistan, cutting
> poverty in half in 10 years and reducing greenhouse gases 80 percent by
> 2050.
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> The Obama team has four groups, which in turn are divided into roughly a
> dozen subgroups, according to Democrats informed about the effort. At first,
> they said, there were three main groups — for personnel, executive actions
> and legislative strategy — but the team recently added a fourth reflecting
> the imperatives of the economic crisis and known as lame duck.
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> As he sets about trying to build a team, Mr. Obama has several possibilities
> for White House chief of staff, most notably Mr. Daschle, his close adviser,
> although that could be complicated because Mr. Daschle's wife is a lobbyist.
> Other possibilities mentioned by Democrats include Representative Rahm
> Emanuel of Illinois, former Commerce Secretary William M. Daley and Mr.
> Obama's Senate chief of staff, Pete Rouse. Mr. Podesta, who held the job
> under President Bill Clinton, could also be recruited for another tour of
> duty.
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> Besides Mr. Gates, some Obama advisers favor keeping Dr. James B. Peake, the
> veterans affairs secretary. But Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. has
> made clear to colleagues that he has no desire to stay on no matter who
> wins, and neither nominee is inclined to ask him, associates say. Instead,
> Obama advisers are weighing a short-term appointment of an elder statesman
> to get through the current crisis and help instill confidence in global
> markets. The names being mentioned include the former Federal Reserve chief
> Paul A. Volcker and former Treasury Secretaries Robert E. Rubin and Lawrence
> H. Summers.
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> But one senior adviser said it would be important to send a message of
> change at a time of economic crisis. "You can expect a fresh face instead of
> a recycled face" at the Treasury, the adviser said. He said that would
> include the boyish-looking Mr. Geithner, 47, who worked at the Treasury
> under Mr. Clinton and his Republican predecessors and has generally gotten
> high marks for his role in shaping the government response to the current
> crisis.
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> To run his transition effort, Mr. McCain tapped Mr. Lehman, the former Navy
> secretary who served on the commission that investigated the Sept. 11
> attacks. Two other advisers, William E. Timmons, a Washington lobbyist, and
> William Ball, another former Navy secretary, are assisting.
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> Like other 9/11 commissioners, Mr. Lehman has expressed strong concern over
> slow transitions that leave a new administration short-handed to deal with
> an early crisis. But Mr. McCain has been leery about being too
> forward-leaning. Many Republicans who would normally be consulted about
> plans and personnel said they had detected little preparation — perhaps,
> they said, out of a sense that it would only be an exercise in "going
> through the motions," as one put it.
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> Many Republicans believe Mr. McCain would bring his top campaign staff with
> him to the White House, including Rick Davis, the campaign manager, whose
> history as a lobbyist has come up repeatedly during the election. Others who
> would most likely accompany Mr. McCain to the White House include Mark
> Salter, his adviser and alter ego; Douglas Holtz-Eakin, his economics
> adviser; and Randy Scheunemann, his national security adviser.
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> For the Treasury, some Republicans said McCain might turn to his primary
> rival, former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, or even Mayor Michael R.
> Bloomberg of New York. Mr. Zoellick, a former deputy secretary of state, is
> a possibility for either the State Department or the Treasury Department,
> Republicans said.
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> A Helping Hand
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> The Bush administration has extended more help to its would-be successors
> than any past White House, relying on an intelligence law Mr. Bush signed
> after the 2004 election authorizing the government to conduct pre-election
> background checks on transition officials designated by the campaigns.
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> For the first time, the president-elect's advisers will be given interim
> security clearances and access to classified information the day after the
> election.
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> The White House also formed a 14-member transition council that met last
> week for the first time to coordinate everything from passing over domestic
> security duties to helping the new team find parking. Mr. Bush's aides are
> preparing a series of briefings and a proposed schedule that they will offer
> the incoming team.
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> Joshua B. Bolten, the White House chief of staff, has made a seamless
> transition a priority, mindful of the rocky, recount-shortened period in
> 2000-1 and a slow confirmation process that left many national security
> officials still unconfirmed when Al Qaeda attacked eight months into the
> administration.
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> Several Republicans said Mr. Bolten was planning to recruit his predecessor,
> Andrew H. Card Jr., to help guide this year's transition.
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> White House aides said their interest was strictly nonpartisan and noted
> that they would offer each campaign the exact same help.
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> "This is not about politics," said Blake Gottesman, Mr. Bolten's deputy.
> "It's about good governance. Everything will be done with full parity."
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