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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Denis McDonough on how to run the White House

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Importance of Competence in Government

" competence has a quality all its own when you're running the government," he says. "When you lose it, it's very hard to get back." He adds: The job of the president is to lay out the objectives clearly and establish new policies for that government.

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