article_snippet: The president listens to people who have interesting things to say – that could be the most junior person on the staff or it could be a senior adviser or it could be a person who whispers something to the most junior person on the staff across a rope line.'
article_snippet: and then would go and whisper to the president.
article_snippet: I just want to do my job, and part of my job for the president is to be the president friend.' '
article_snippet: Recent books and White House interviews have fed that fire more oxygen.
article_snippet: Obama message, though, was overshadowed by a camera shot of a framed photo of Obama of a bookshelf – complete with three figurines posed bowing in homage to Obama image.
highlights_snippet: Helped decide to send Attorney General Eric Holder to Ferguson, Missouri – in a conversation that Attorney General Eric Holder wasn't a part of .