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Article: White House `Intrigue and Calculation'
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- The Washington Post
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- January 22, 1993
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Just hours after President Clinton scolded Washington as a place
of "intrigue and calculation" where "powerful people maneuver for
position and worry endlessly about who is in and who is out," his
White House staff showed how right he was.
The big concern yesterday among the new White House staff was not
Iraq, not the budget, not even Zoe E. Baird's confirmation battle
(although that was much discussed among the sharply divided staff).
The biggest concern was who is getting what desk and where would
it be.
The goal, said a bemused observer of the battling, "is to have eye
contact. . . There is this thing about `line-of-sight' so that those
working {for senior officials} have to have eye ...