Obama names Gene Sperling to top economic post

USA TODAY:  President Clinton  and his family weren’t home when a single-engine Cessna airplane crashed into the White House shortly before 2 a.m. on Sept. 12, 1994. But the joke around the West Wing was that Gene Sperling was still there.

Starting Friday, he’s baaaack.

Perhaps the White House’s most famous workaholic, Sperling returns to head the National Economic Council under President  Obama— the top economic policy position in the White House, and the same job he held for Clinton from 1997 to 2001, with few breaks for sleep…  (more)

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