Last Day On The Job
Mark Knoller is a White House Correspondent for CBS News.
Say it ain’t so, Joe.
It’s the feeling of many top White House staffers on this – Joe Hagin’s last official day as Deputy Chief of Staff.
Hagin has served in the job from day one of the Bush Administration. There’s no staffer who’s been in the same senior level post longer than him. And there’s no one at the White House whose been more intimately engaged in the moment-to-moment operations of the Executive Office of the President.
He was the one who modernized the communications system at the White House. He brought 21st century technology to the Situation Room (see above image) and renovated the worn and tattered Press Briefing Room.
“My job here has been to make the trains run on time and rejuvenate the institution and I’ve been very happy doing that,” said Hagin in an interview with CBS News.
But as one of Mr. Bush’s top aides for more than seven years, he has kept a deliberately low profile. And unlike his one-time fellow Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, Hagin has never been served a subpoena ...
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It’s the feeling of many top White House staffers on this – Joe Hagin’s last official day as Deputy Chief of Staff.
Hagin has served in the job from day one of the Bush Administration. There’s no staffer who’s been in the same senior level post longer than him. And there’s no one at the White House whose been more intimately engaged in the moment-to-moment operations of the Executive Office of the President.
He was the one who modernized the communications system at the White House. He brought 21st century technology to the Situation Room (see above image) and renovated the worn and tattered Press Briefing Room.
“My job here has been to make the trains run on time and rejuvenate the institution and I’ve been very happy doing that,” said Hagin in an interview with CBS News.
But as one of Mr. Bush’s top aides for more than seven years, he has kept a deliberately low profile. And unlike his one-time fellow Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, Hagin has never been served a subpoena ...
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