“When new White House chief of staff John Kelly huddled with senior staff on his first day at work, he outlined a key problem in President Trump’s White House that he planned to fix: Bad information getting into the president’s hands,” Politico reports.
“Kelly told the staff that information needed to flow through him — whether on paper or in briefings — because the president would make better decisions if given good information.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.