The Presence (2012)
“It housed the working quarters of the President and some of his senior staff, as well as the Cabinet Room, White House mess, security, press pool, a second conference room, and a few other offices. The Oval Office, so named because that was exactly its shape—oval—stuck out of the back left-hand corner of the West Wing like a man-made egg, facing unto the Rose Garden and connected to the promenade by private doors and two small patios. Between it and the Cabinet Room, which also faced the Rose G...arden, was an office that under some administrations had housed the President’s confidential secretary. Nowadays it housed the President’s Chief of Staff, Norman Greenbaum, a slick Boston lawyer and former legal advisor to the board of a Fortune 500 corporation. Usually a man of great polish and almost unruffable cool, today he was sweating mightily.
It was his habit to arrive in the West Wing no later than six o’clock. He rarely needed more than five hours sleep, and the ninety minutes of quiet before the other staffers began to arrive were usually enough to complete his correspondence and do an itemized rundown of the day’s major activities.MoreLess
It was his habit to arrive in the West Wing no later than six o’clock. He rarely needed more than five hours sleep, and the ninety minutes of quiet before the other staffers began to arrive were usually enough to complete his correspondence and do an itemized rundown of the day’s major activities.MoreLess
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