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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
aides in an effort to better coordinate the administration's
initiatives and ...