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virtual policy, it has also been more open to the media than any White House in recent memory. In the beginning, I sought a level of formal access to this White House, something of a fly-on- the-wall status. The president himself encouraged this idea. But, given the many fiefdoms in the Trump White House that came

heeding Senate leader Mitch McConnell’s prescription that “this president will sign whatever is put in front of him,” while also taking advantage of the White House’s lack of political and legislative experience and outsourcing as much policy as possible to Capitol Hill. In the early weeks of the administration, P

om he had never met before, for positions whose importance Trump did not particularly understand. Ailes, a veteran of the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 41 White Houses, was growing worried by the president-elect’s lack of immediate focus on a White House structure that could serve and protect him. He tried to impres

cific ideas about how to turn his themes and vitriol into policy, nor a team that could reasonably unite behind him. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019969 In most White Houses, policy and action flow down, with staff trying to implement what the president wants—or, at the very least, what the chief of staff says the preside

retary of State Cordell Hull as he learned of the attack on Pearl Harbor. To all outward appearances, it was an uneventful background interview, and DeYoung, Columbo-like in her affect, aroused no suspicions when she broached the de rigueur question: “My colleagues asked me to ask you this: Did you talk t

y further release of information to the public." According to Politico, Walton "lamented the president's sweeping language, but said a clarification White House chief of staff Mark Meadows submitted to the court Tuesday amounted to a retraction of EFTA00148547 the tweets. ... `Obviously, when there's ever

s say." Meanwhile, CNN (10/21, Raju, Barrett, 83.16M) reports on its website, "Senate Republicans reiterated on Wednesday their stiff opposition to the White House's last-ditch effort to cut a major stimulus deal...the latest indication that passing any new relief package almost certainly will have to wait until

limate Change And Turkey. In an analysis titled "Biden Foreign Policy Begins With Telling The World: 'America's Back;" the Washington Post (10/21, DeYoung, 14.2M) reports that if he wins the presidency, Joe Biden "has pledged to immediately rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, the World Health Organization

lic enemy; they expected nothing of him. But Priebus and Spicer HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020089 they regarded as functionaries, and their job was to support the White House’s goals, which included their goals and interests. Spicer, ever ridiculed in the media for his cockamamie defense of the White House and a seeming dum

ce his exit from the White House six weeks before—he was on a crash all-sushi diet. “That building,” said his friend David Bossie, speaking about all White Houses but especially the Trump White House, “takes perfectly healthy people and turns them into old, unhealthy people.” But Bannon, who Bossie had declared

nal Committee (DNC), 101 Democratic Party, 37, 97, 212, 310 Deripaska, Oleg, 17, 101, 240 Devils Bargain, The (Green), 276, 289 DeVos, Betsy, 21, 129 DeYoung, Karen, 105-6 Dickerson, John, 209 Digital Entertainment Network, 56 Director of National Intelligence, 86, 214 Disney, 42, 88 Dowd, Mark, 281 Dubai,

0/8, Rossman, Aretakis, 10.31M) reports White House physician Sean Conley "cleared Trump to return to public life on Saturday" in a memo released by the White House on Thursday evening. Conley wrote, "Saturday will be day 10 since Thursday's diagnosis, and based on the trajectory of advanced diagnostics the team

p-promises-a-small-remaining-number-of-us-force-in- afghanistan-by-december/2020/10/07/7ec36f0e-0909-11eb-991c-be6ead8c4018_story.html> (10/8, Ryan, DeYoung, 14.2M) similarly says "the Pentagon indicated it had received no orders to alter plans for a conditions- based withdrawal and Afghan negotiators voi

ppointing a director to coordinate the federal response to gun violence." A Washington Post (4/17, Olorunnipa, Sotomayor, 10.52M) analysis describes the White House as under "growing pressure to act," even as "the routine has become so predictable that some gun-control activists see the familiarity of tragedy as

nford, and others, but we had a very deliberate and fully informed process leading up to the decision by the President." The Washington Post (4/18, DeYoung, Ryan, 10.52M) reports that since taking office, "Biden has reestablished the formal decision process, which his predecessor seemed determined to de

- mcconnell/index.html> (10/21, Raju, Barrett, 83.16M) reports on its website, "Senate Republicans reiterated on Wednesday their stiff opposition to the White House's last-ditch effort to cut a major stimulus deal...the latest indication that passing any new relief package almost certainly will have to wait until

al-security/biden-foreign-policy-begins-with-telling-the-world- americas-bacic/2020/10/21/2fc0e528-1348-1 1 eb-bc1040b25382f I be_stoty.html> (10/21, DeYoung, 14.2M) reports that if he wins the presidency, Joe Biden "has pledged to immediately rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, the World Health Organizatio

arrative as it works behind the scenes to not only help safeguard the election but also to reassure the public despite messages to the contrary from the White House." In addition, the Washington Post <https://www.washingtonpost.corn/politics/2020-election- security/2020/10/24/4b290e2-1479-11eb-ad6f-36c93e6e94fb_

post.com/world/europe/nagomo-karabakh-cease-fire-armenia- azerbaijan/2020/10/25/e6lafe56-16fb-lleb-aeec-b93bcc29a01b_story.html> (10/25, Khurshudyan, DeYoung, 14.2M) says Trump "appeared Sunday to back Armenia, saying its troops were `fighting like hell.'" During a campaign rally in New Hampshire, "Trump

0/8, Rossman, Aretakis, 10.31M) reports White House physician Sean Conley "cleared Trump to return to public life on Saturday" in a memo released by the White House on Thursday evening. Conley wrote, "Saturday will be day 10 since Thursday's diagnosis, and based on the trajectory of advanced diagnostics the team

als, and they fear that it could reduce the limited leverage the Afghan government has in talks with the Taliban." The Washington Post (10/8, Ryan, DeYoung, 14.2M) similarly says "the Pentagon indicated it had received no orders to alter plans for a conditions-based withdrawal and Afghan negotiators voi

pointing a director to coordinate the federal response to gun violence." A Washington Post (4/17, Olorunnipa, Sotomayor, 10.52M) analysis describes the White House as under "growing pressure to act," even as "the routine has become so predictable that some gun-control activists see the familiarity of tragedy as

nford, and others, but we had a very deliberate and fully informed process leading up to the decision by the President." The Washington Post (4/18, DeYoung, Ryan, 10.52M) reports that since taking office, "Biden has reestablished the formal decision process, which his predecessor seemed determined to d

0/8, Rossman, Aretakis, 10.31M) reports White House physician Sean Conley "cleared Trump to return to public life on Saturday" in a memo released by the White House on Thursday evening. Conley wrote, "Saturday will be day 10 since Thursday's diagnosis, and based on the trajectory of advanced diagnostics the team

als, and they fear that it could reduce the limited leverage the Afghan government has in talks with the Taliban." The Washington Post (10/8, Ryan, DeYoung, 14.2M) similarly says "the Pentagon indicated it had received no orders to alter plans for a conditions-based withdrawal and Afghan negotiators voi