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Print this article White House deputy press secretary T.J. Ducklo recently resigned, barely a month into his new job. Ducklo had berated a Politico reporter who had questioned the status of Ducklo’s personal relationship with another reporter. Ducklo’s brief tenure was certainly unusual but not without precedent in White House history. Given the high stakes involved, it’s not surprising that internal jockeying and outside lobbying have occasionally scuttled prominent appointments shortly after those appointments took place. And since personnel is policy, such changes can mean a sharp...

Mark Shields WASHINGTON — The first reviews are in on President-elect Joe Biden’s choices for Cabinet and White House positions. And they are overwhelmingly positive: “seasoned,” “experienced,” “qualified professionals,” “capable and sensible.” But I wonder if Biden ever had a chat with the late Bryce Harlow, who first worked for Gen. George C. Marshall in dealing with Congress during the World War II years, when Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman were president. Chief executives Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford each sought Harlow’s advice and were both...

Is an extent to which you can run outrage and then it runs out. they're going to keep watching football. they're going to keep watching cam newton. this is a losing proposition for him. he can keep beating that same racist drum. it's not going to change the reality of his presidency. >> in the 1990 version of this with the republicans in washington, it was an extremely calculated play. they were doing this very particularly for calculated political advantage. their pollster bob teeter calculated how it would work for them. it's not clear that this was such a real political calculation by donal...

Calculated play. they were doing this very particularly for calculated political advantage. their pollster bob teeter calculated how it would work for them. it's not clear that this was such a real political calculation by donald trump. it might have been. but we never know whether it was just something that came off the top of his head or whether if there was any calculation behind him. >> i think it's absolutely calculated. this is what this man does. he tries to set up debates about either you're on the side of him and america or you're on the side of black people, because you can't see bot...