From his viewpoint, his freewheeling style got him to the White House and is not the problem. “Whether it’s General Kelly or Reince Priebus, Scaramucci or Spicer, the reason the White House is failing is not because of staff. This is like rearranging deck chairs on a Titanic.”Many foreign policy specialists had hoped that Mr. Kelly, as homeland security secretary, and what is called the “M.M.T. Mr. Clinton, for example, initially tapped Thomas F. McLarty III, a friend since kindergarten and considered one of the nicest people ever to work in a White House, although perhaps too nice. Both Mr. Ford and President Jimmy Carter at first did not think they needed a chief of staff, until learning otherwise.

Source: New York Times July 31, 2017 00:22 UTC