A job in the White House may be short on pay and long on L.B.J. But for every presidential assistant who quits, a pot of gold is waiting just outside the gates of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Indeed, the White House may be the only U.S. institution whose dropouts almost always make good.
Job offers start pouring in on a presidential assistant from the moment he begins looking restless. Larry O'Brien, who was openly eager to quit as Lyndon Johnson's Capitol Hill strategist before he was appointed Postmaster General, had any number of offers from...
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