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Denis McDonough, speaks to the press after meeting Honduran President Porfirio Lobo at the Government Palace in Tegucigalpa in this November 28, 2012 photo.
The president will make the widely expected announcement at 12:10 a.m. ET from the White House East Room as part of a slew of promotions for administration staffers.
McDonough will become Obama’s fifth chief of staff, replacing Jack Lew, who was nominated by the president to become Treasury Secretary. Lew took over the post from Bill Daley, who was inserted in the post after Rahm Emanuel left the White House to run for mayor of Chicago. Longtime Obama adviser Pete Rouse briefly served as acting chief of staff between Emanuel’s exit and Daley’s entrance.
Five chiefs of staff is the most for a president in the modern era, since at least Harry Truman.
President Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan also had four chiefs of staff. President George H.W. Bush had three, including James Baker, who also served in the position for Reagan, the only person to serve in the post for two different presidents in at least the last 50 years. President George W. Bush had two.
Rob Nabors -- the president’s current director of legislative affairs, who was involved in the fiscal cliff negotiations -- will be named assistant to the president and Deputy White House Chief of Staff for Policy.
Tony Blinken will replace McDonough as assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor.
Dan Pfeiffer, a 2008 Obama campaign veteran, who was White House communications director, will be named assistant to the president and senior adviser, a role held currently by David Plouffe. Jennifer Palmieri, who was the deputy communications director, will become director.
Other staff announcements: Danielle Gray will be named assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary; Katy Kale assumes the title of assistant to the President for Management and Administration; Lisa Monaco will be named assistant to the president and Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (assuming John Brennan is confirmed as head of the CIA); Miguel Rodriguez will be named assistant to the president and director of legislative affairs, replacing Nabors; David Simas will become assistant to the president and deputy senior advisor for communications and strategy.
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All of Obama's Cabinet members ..
Must take an oath..
To each Carry around.... a Big Mirror...for OBAMA...
aliblahblah really, that's what you're going with?
It's about time Obama gave an important position to a minority. In his staff that constitutes a Caucasion Male.
Any of those nice jobs left? I want one Obie.
I could be, "White House Chief Director of Directors and Chief Advisors of Policy and Misdirection"
Its a new cabinet position, and I know I can do it well.
How about minister of lies and bunk?
Overheard during the job interview "McDonough can you relay my message to the American people?" At which time McDonough bent over and grabbed his ankles and said "not a problem Mr. President."
so this guy helped set up obama back when he was senator...hummmmm
sounds like its time to pay him back,,with a cush do nothing job....
he will fit right in with this do nothing president.....
croniesim at its best...
we are broke
WHERE..?
Is The ETHNIC DIVERSITY...
In OBAMA's APPOINTMENTS..?
I Found THREE Womem..In Back of Obama's CABINET..
One..is making Coffee..
Another...Brings The Doughnuts...
And The Last..is The sanitary Engineer...Whose Daily Oval Office task...is beyond Comprehension...
I still think the President knew what he was doing when he switched to ALL white men. The Republicans kept beating up on the women and the minorities. There was not a lot the President to do to reeducate the Republicans. The Public did not seem all that interested in stopping the injustices. But let them try to beat up on the old white men and we might have a different ball game. I am waiting to see. If any of you watched the Kerry hearings,you saw the differences manifest themselves immediately.
He first elected the minorities based on race and sexuality...when he should have elected them on experience and brains. Who said Obama is not trainable? He learned that it takes more than color, race, sexuality to run or fail at running government. Best Man or Women for the job.
OBAMA
Has promised..BARNEY FRANK..
A new " POSITION"...
YEAH! Bent over!
He picks white guys because they're smarter.
What we need..
are LIBS like You..
Pretending to Be
Racist Conservatives..
Thanks Susie Soros...your Free Cheese..is melting here..
MMMMM. Disention in the ranks AGAIN! If you cannot maintain a staff; how do you run a country?
MSN - Can you PLEASE get Obbummers UGLY FACE off the headlines Now and Then - it makes me want to puke
HIS APPOINTMENT FOR THE SEC is a real looker...michelle made him pick her,,,,
"It's Lurch!"....
Obama does not want to have to blame another black man for his failures...so lets just pin it on the old white guy.
thankless job as all you do is schedule political campaign speeches even though the election was over last Nov. There will be another soon because you tire quickly of just doing only that. The President likes running for office much better than running the office and you grow to dislike that "I'm the smartest guy in the room" approach to every meeting.
To the person who thought this guy was Lurch from the Adams family. Don't think so. Lurch is up on the hill having people say wonderful things about him and his anti american resume and gold digging marriage and Kennedy infatuation trying to be Hillsarwe's replacement. This guy I think is Uncle Fester... just look at the eyes and imagine he has been on the Michelle diet for a few years now... you know... the diet where she grabs all the food for herself and leaves everyone else starving.
Does anyone really care? I doubt the announcement is being made at 12:30 a.m. since most would be asleep or out partying at that hour. You probably mean 12:30 p.m. Don't you proof read your work before posting?
Look at the ignorent folks, posting here, pre-judging Denis because he is going to serve our nation, under a Democratic President! A democrat won the White House with a majority popular vote and a majority of the Electoral College votes! All you sore losers need to get over it! There is nothing to be gained since the GOP has proven itself to be the most corrupted party, tied to the Neo-Con Koch Brothers, the Waltons, the AT&T ALEC legislations, the Casino owners, and the Tea Party, who hates all forms of government alongside the Religious Right, who are so bummed that there was no Armageddon!
The Republican Party is nothing more that what's left of a reasonable party, that decided to embrace the most racist, bigot, white zealots in order to gain 51% of the vote, while embracing the greed of the rich, who use you as puppets to allow them free access to America's wealth while they convince your GOP puppet representatives to defend laws allowing these greedy folks to pay no taxes and hide the profits in off-shore tax havens!
Four years of blocking ninety-seven out of every one hundred bills to make it to the Senate is what you endorse? And those were mostly name changes of Post Offices, which your party seeks to bankrupt with your GOP legislation forcing this non-government funded postal service to finance retirement funds seventy-five years into the future?
Your GOP has no sense or sensibility left!
Is that a cuckoo bird in your profile? Talk about drinking the liberal/communist/socialist/marxist/democrat kool aid, wow!
It's not the GOP. It's these Tea Party kooks who have joined the GOP because we live in a 2 party system. these kooks are killing the Nelson Rockefeller old time GOP party faster than you can snap your fingers. they feel the need to win every battle they fight so they wind up losing the war. No blacks, no Hispanics, no Asians,d few women under 40 and very few young folks. The GOP needs to change their primary system, not the electoral college. They will hate this post and they will not win many national elctions if they won't change. The old white geezers party is close to dead and I'm an old white geezer. Maybe the GOP does want to join the Whig party on the shelf of history.
....5th chief of staff...
...Prez-0 must be one of those PITA bosses...
cause no one wants to work with a DO NOTHING pretend president..
lol,,,poor BO....
Why not call it what it Really is ..A new" Head of the Propaganda Ministry " !!!!!!!
What about the ATF director? Remember number 11 on his list of executive orders. The nominee needs to go through Congress so he better act soon.
In homage to the great Cleavon Little!!
WHERE DA WHITE WOMEN AT!!!!!!!!
Is any one else here sick of seeing or hearing him every day? Once a community organizer always a community organizer.
Another derelict in the staff, a top foreign policy adviser
must be a promotion authorized by Hillary
Just read where Obama's recess appointments were ruled Unconstitutional by the appelate court. Wonder if MSNBC will report it.