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Jan 21, 2023 · Jan. 21, 2023. WASHINGTON — Ron Klain, the White House chief of staff who has steered President Biden’s administration through two years of triumphs and setbacks, is expected to step down in...
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Jan 27, 2023 · CNN — President Joe Biden announced White House chief of staff Ron Klain will step down next week and will be replaced by Jeff Zients, the former Obama administration official who ran Biden’s...
Feb 1, 2023 · WASHINGTON (AP) — Outgoing White House chief of staff Ron Klain burst into tears Wednesday as he talked about his boss, President Joe Biden, and his decades of work with him. “This is the best job I’ve ever had,” said Klain, immediately crying after he said he couldn’t promise a tear-free speech.
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When tapped by Biden after the 2020 election, Klain had been widely praised as one of the most experienced people to become chief of staff. “I needed Ron, and I knew it,” Biden said at a White House event this month on Klain’s departure, during which both men wiped away tears. The Indiana native, now 61, had worked in all three branches of governme...
But perseverance and determination weren’t always enough. The White House, for example, tried hard to pass voting rights legislation. “We tried every single avenue and path, and we just didn't have the votes,” Klain said. “Sometimes, the best strategies, the best plans, being in the right – which I believe we were on voting rights – doesn’t get the...
Chris Whipple, who wrote a book in 2017 on White House chiefs of staff and a recently published book on the first half of the Biden administration, considers Klain “in the elite group of the best chiefs in history.” He said the job is brutal. “You get all of the blame for things that go wrong and none of the credit for stuff that goes right – altho...
As for what’s next for Klain, he said he has no immediate plans beyond catching up on his sleep. Unlike when his daughter got married last year, Klain won’t have to squeeze his son’s wedding in April into an overpacked work schedule. The trips he has been making to Indianapolis nearly every weekend since December to be with his ailing mother will g...
In his final hours at the White House Wednesday, Klain conducted his last morning meeting with Biden, this time joined by Zients. They talked about the previous night’s State of the Union address and what immediate items Klain was handing over to Zients. Klain did one more TV hit, telling MSNBC viewers to stop underestimating Bidenand his team. And...
Jan 21, 2023 · Jan. 21, 2023, 1:43 PM PST. By Monica Alba, Peter Nicholas and Kelly O'Donnell. WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff Ron Klain is expected to depart the Biden administration in the coming...