Caricaturized notion. when you look at the role of a chief of staff, tell everyone what is actually is supposed to include and at what point does your job description become confined to this small sphere and cannot touch the campaign or the election world? well, you know, the white house chief of staff is many things. he s the president s gatekeeper, his confidant, his so-called javelin catcher. he s the person who executes the president s agenda, and of course, most important of all, he s the person you count on to tell the president hard truths. that s an area where, sadly, mark meadows utterly failed to carry out his duty as white house chief of staff. and let me just say as a kind of overarching point, there used to be stiff competition for the title of worst white house chief of staff in history. eisenhower s sherman adams, who was involved in a pay ola