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Obama Builds Powerful Team of White House Advisers
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Obama Assembles His West Wing
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... Washington Post: "Not since Richard M. Nixon tried to abolish the majority of his Cabinet has a president gone so far in attempting to build a West Wing-based clutch of advisers with a mandate to cut through -- or leapfrog -- the traditional bureaucracy."       ...

Obama Assembles His West Wing
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... WashPost on how the president-elect's cadre of counselors will have a power to direct domestic policy that will rival, if not exceed, the authority of his Cabinet.       ...

WPost: Obama is Nixonian In Concentration of Power
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Wow. I don’t know what Barack Obama has done to make the Washington Post so angry at him, but I can’t imagine the paper would trot out a Nixon analogy lightly: ...

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