Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Wednesday, January 18, 2016.
Axelrod, Emanuel, Bill Daley, and other Chicagoans on working in the Obama White House
President Barack Obama hired many Chicagoans for key White House roles after his election in 2008. Sun-Times Washington bureau chief Lynn Sweet asked some of the former and current White House staffers to reflect on their time working in the Obama administration. Said former White House senior adviser David Axelrod on working with Obama: “One of the images that I’ll remember [is] him walking off to the East Wing with a stack of paper under his arm. . . . I would hear from him at midnight, one in the morning, you knew that he would be up early, until the early hours, you know, making sure that he was prepared for the things that he was going to face the next day to the extent you can be.” [Sun-Times]
