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The White House As City Hall: A Tough Place to Organize
Author(s) -
KUMAR MARTHA JOYNT
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
presidential studies quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.337
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1741-5705
pISSN - 0360-4918
DOI - 10.1111/j.0360-4918.2001.00155.x
Subject(s) - white (mutation) , house staff , public relations , work (physics) , house of representatives , political science , management , public administration , law , politics , engineering , medicine , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , chemistry , gene , family medicine , economics
The White House is unlike any other organization as there are few records left behind by those having the building and none of the core White House staff who remain once a President leaves. At the same time, the new team is responsible from day one for making informed and appropriate decisions. There is little preparation that can provide people with an understanding of what they are to meet once they come into office, but there are ways in which a new staff can take advantage of the knowledge of those who precede them. They can speak with their predecessors, talk with people who work at the Office of Management and Budget, and learn from the executive clerk and others at the White House who provide an institutional memory of their own.