“a baseball team reaching deep into its bench”
The NYTimes details the staffing strategies of the Bush administration:
During the four years he spent as President Bush’s “body man,” or personal aide, [college dropout] Blake Gottesman acquired an eclectic set of job skills. He emerged from the experience schooled at reading presidential moods, expert at handling Mr. Bush’s Scottish terrier, Barney, and adept at carting around the mundane necessities of presidential life. … Now, after a two-year hiatus, Mr. Gottesman is back at the White House, with the lofty title of deputy chief of staff for operations. He is 28.
