Obama Picks Daley for Chief of Staff

White House

Updated Apr. 24, 2017 4:52PM EDT / Published Jan. 06, 2011 6:54AM EST

Departing Press Secretary Robert Gibbs will certainly be hearing from the “professional left” on this one: President Obama has chosen William Daley, the former Commerce secretary under President Clinton and a vice chairman at JP Morgan, to serve as his chief of staff. Daley appears to have opposed both of President Obama’s biggest legislative achievements of the 2010: financial reform and health-care reform. Daley’s brother, Richard, stepped aside as mayor of Chicago so that Rahm Emanuel, whose job William Daley is taking, could run for mayor.

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Obama Picks Daley for Chief of Staff