William M. Daley will become the next White House chief of staff, Obama administration officials said Thursday. Currently a senior executive with JPMorgan Chase, and formerly the commerce secretary with the Clinton administration, Mr. Daley is expected to bring an outsider’s voice and decades of business experience to the West Wing.
President Obama is expected to make the announcement at 2:30 Thursday afternoon. Pete Rouse, the interim chief of staff and a longtime friend of the president’s, will become a counselor to Mr. Obama, officials said.
The decision to hire Mr. Daley was made just one day after he visited with the president at the White House on Wednesday. After the meeting, aides had suggested that Mr. Obama was close to a decision, but had not said when it would be made.
The arrival of Mr. Daley, the brother of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, is the latest acceleration of what White House officials have described as an overhaul of the president’s senior staff. Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, announced on Wednesday that he will leave early next month.
And on Monday, David Plouffe, Mr. Obama’s campaign manager in 2008, is expected to begin at the White House to take over the role that David Axelrod has played as the president’s top political adviser.
Mr. Axelrod is leaving the White House to return to Chicago, where he will help to prepare the president’s 2012 re-election campaign.
By: Michael Sheer (ny times)
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