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A Workbook For The President-Elect
Brookings Institution Press
November 2008
On Sale: November 1, 2008
125 pages
ISBN: 081573655X
EAN: 9780815736554
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Non-Fiction Political
The period from Election Day to Inauguration Day in America
seems impossibly short. Newly elected U.S. presidents have
less than eleven weeks to construct a new government
composed of supporters and strangers, hailing from all parts
of the nation. This unique and daunting process always
involves at least some mistakes in hiring, perhaps, or in
policy priorities, or organizational design. Early blunders
can carry serious consequences well into a president s term;
minimizing them from the outset is critical. In What Do We
Do Now? Stephen Hess draws from his long experience as a
White House staffer and presidential adviser to show what
can be done to make presidential transitions go smoothly.
Here is a workbook to guide future chief executives,
decision by decision, through the minefield of transition.
You ll have to start at the beginning, settling on a
management style and knowing how to "arrange all the boxes."
Something as seemingly mundane as parceling office space can
be consequential hence the inclusion of a proposed White
House organizational chart and floor plans of the West Wing.
What qualities are needed for each job, and where are the
best candidates for those positions most likely to be found?
How can you construct a cabinet that looks like America ?
What Do We Do Now? is your indispensable guide through the
thicket of these decisions. There are small decisions, too.
You ll have to pick a desk photos of the choices are
included. Which presidential portraits should hang in the
Oval Office? Which ones have previous presidents chosen? And
when it comes time to write an inaugural address, what
should be the content, theme, and tone? It s all here in the
presidential transition workbook don t leave for Washington
without it. This concise volume is sure to be a valuable
resource for the president and team of advisers as they
attempt to herd cats into an effective government. What Do
We Do Now? is also a delightful read for anyone interested
in exactly how one goes about being the president of the
United States.
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