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Article: White House Staff May Have New Cast; Bush's First Choices Are Mostly Unknowns
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- The Washington Post
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- December 17, 1988
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President Reagan liked to say he believed in Cabinet government,
but then assembled a White House staff so powerful it almost always
eclipsed his Cabinet.
President-elect George Bush also endorses Cabinet government.
And if the early signs prove accurate, his White House staff will
bear little resemblance, in style or power, to the staffs that served
Reagan the past eight years.
As incoming chief of staff John H. Sununu listed the first
handful of senior White House appointments yesterday, and sources in
the transition named others, the White House staff emerging under
Bush appeared easier to define by what it is not than by what it is
or may turn out to be.
Outside of Sununu and ...