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Article: Bush Is Keeping Cabinet Secretaries Close to Home; Spending Time at White House Required
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 31, 2005
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President Bush is requiring Cabinet members to spend several hours
a week at the White House compound, a move top aides say eases
coordination with government agencies but one seen by some analysts
as fresh evidence of the White House's tightening grip over
administration policy.
Under a directive instituted by Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr.
at the start of Bush's second term, Cabinet secretaries spend as many
as four hours a week working out of an office suite set up for them
at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White
House. There, they meet with presidential policy and communications