Complaints inside the White House, in fact, center on Candidate Clinton’s promise to reduce presidential staff by 25 percent. Last Friday chief of staff Mack McLarty and his deputy Mark Gearan presented Clinton with charts and graphs showing how to make the cuts. If it sounds like strategic planning, it is. White House officials-who are already complaining they’re paid less, but work harder, than their Bush counterparts-are expected to battle Clinton to the last administrative assistant.
