White House Deputy Chief of Staff

The White House Deputy Chief of Staff is officially the top aide to the White House Chief of Staff, who is the senior aide to the President of the United States. The Deputy Chief of Staff usually has an office in the West Wing and is responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the White House bureaucracy, as well as such other duties as the Chief of Staff assigns to him or her. In some administrations, there are multiple deputy chiefs with different duties.

Nancy-Ann DeParle and Alyssa Mastromonaco serve as Deputy Chiefs of Staff in the Obama Administration.^[1]

Popular culture

Bradley Whitford portrayed White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman in the fictional Bartlet Administration on the multiple Emmy Award-winning television drama The West Wing. Lyman was mostly responsible for political affairs. Sam Seaborn became White House Deputy CoS for the Santos Administration, while Lyman went on to become Chief of Staff.
Chad Lowe portrayed White House Deputy Chief of Staff Reed Pollock, serving under White House Chief of Staff Tom Lennox and President Wayne Palmer on the multiple Emmy Award nominated and winning television drama 24. When Pollock believes the President is unfit to handle a national crisis, Pollock conspires to assassinate him by planting a bomb.

Notes

^ Ambinder, Marc (2011-01-27). "A New Press Secretary, Two New Deputies at the White House". The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/01/a-new-press-secretary-two-new-deputies-at-the-white-house/70378/. Retrieved 2011-01-27.

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