How Bill Daley Died a Death of a Thousand Cuts: Jonathan Alter
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Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) -- The resignation of William M. Daleyas President Barack Obama’s White House chief of staff brings tomind the words of David Wilhelm when he left his post aschairman of the Democratic National Committee in 1994: “I’mgoing back to Chicago where they stab you in the front.”
Obama was reportedly stunned that Daley quit after only ayear in the post, but he shouldn’t have been. The affableChicago banker had already experienced Washington’s classicdeath of a thousand cuts.