The President's Chief of Staff: Lessons Learned Author(s): James P. Pfiffner Source: Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 1, Democracy in Transition (Winter, 1993), pp. 77-102 Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27551081 . Accessed: 15/10/2011 09:07 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Blackwell Publishing and Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Presidential Studies Quarterly. http://www.jstor.org The President's Chief of Staff: Lessons Learned JAMES P. PFIFFNER Government and Public Professor of Policy Mason George University Abstract are two House This paper argues that there firm lessons of White organization can he Presidents at their own no. a is essential that ignored hy only peril: 1, chief of staff in the modern no. a will almost lead White House; 2, domineering chief of staff certainly to is trouble. After outlining the argument for thefirst lesson, the hulk of the paper devoted to a detailed examination of the conductof the chief of staff office hy each of thefour H.