evidence: Biden Names Longtime Aide Ron Klain As White House Chief Of Staff [...] President-elect Joe Biden has named his longtime aide Ron Klain to be White House chief of staff, the campaign announced Wednesday evening. [...] Biden's choice of Klain points to the team's focus on immediately trying to tackle dual crises: the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed about 240,000 people in the United States so far, as well as the economic recovery. Klain helped shepherd the 2009 Recovery Act as Biden's chief of staff, and then in 2014 he was appointed the Obama administration's Ebola czar.