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matter in governing? personal relationships count for an awful lot and trust, keeping your word. my experience with bill daley was that he always kept his word. i didn t always agree with his word but he kept it. he was honorable and responsible before he gave his word. so i found that he was very easy to work with. but the test is going to be how will president obama and his chief of staff interact? they do not have a strong close relationship. i m a little concerned about still the chicago crowd. i was chief of staff and i was from massachusetts and everybody else was from texas. so i think it was good to have a little different perspective sometimes. in this case, though, jon meacham, i m certainly pleased that you have somebody that went through worked in past administrations, that went through something like gore v bush. it s always important to have
he s been through bush v. gore. he also comes from a household of one of the great mayors in the history of the united states. mayor daley understood snow. here we go. mayor daley he s seen it at the precinct level, at the ward level, he s seen it at supreme court level, the president. his brother, an extraordinary mayor of chicago. where does this leave progressives, charles, progressives who will feel betrayed by the taxes, feel betrayed by sperling, who feel betrayed by the selection of a banker, jpmorgan chase banker as chief of staff? it may leave a little nasty aftertaste in the mouth. now that you have an opposition who is actually in power, when you see your enemy up close, it makes you realize who your real friends are, even if you don t agree with them all the time.
connect very well with republicans on the hill. daley has, daley will, and with the business community. how important is this choice sdm. i think it s a pretty important choice. i m a big bill daley fan. he was the chairman of the gore campaign. done evans and he ended up becoming pretty close friends, not just because they both had been commerce secretaries, but both very actively involved in presidential campaigns. i watched them and sat in on negotiations to debate the negotiations and the presidential debates. i think bill daley is an interesting choice. i hope he has the true confidence and council with the president that s necessary to be a good chief of staff. it s not just what you do outside, but the relationship where the president that makes a big difference. i m a bill daley fan, he ll do a good job as chief of staff. i think he has better peripheral vision than a lot of people at the white house right now. that s very important. andy, how much does chemistry