The Power Of A White House Chief Of Staff

The Power of a White House Chief of Staff The Office of the White House Chief of Staff is one of the most powerful political offices in D.C. and this shows through John Grisham's Novel the Pelican Brief. In it there is a man named Fletcher Coal, who is often referred to as a hatchet man(Grisham 37). He is a middle aged man who has clawed his way into the inner circle and dominates the administration behind closed doors. I wanted to know what his power was like to a real chief of staff.
The office of Chief of Staff isn't the most well known political offices so I wanted to provide some base information on it. The first unofficial Chief of Staff was first brought about in 1857 but it was another 80 years before the official office of chief of