Inside Obama’s Secret Schedule

President Obama’s private schedule is “so closely held that Obama aides, like their counterparts under George W. Bush, are expected to dispose of it at day’s end in ‘burn bags’ … The public schedule is what the White House wants people to know about the president’s day. The private schedule is what he actually does with one of his most scarce resources,” Yahoo News reports.

“Every night, around Obama’s 6:30 p.m. target time for dinner with his family, senior aides get a fairly complete schedule for the next day… Before 7 a.m… top staff get a thick collated sheaf of 8½-by-11-inch sheets of paper with a colored top sheet emblazoned with the presidential seal and the name of the staff member to whom it is destined… Throughout the day, top staff today can consult a shared electronic document, made with scheduling software, that reflects any last-minute changes.”