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MY GUESTBOOK
�That�s always been more Donna�s department than anyone else�s, but I�m going to give her a hand,� I said.
�Good. Now, there are a lot of positions left to fill. My wife is trying to steal my Press Secretary and my Deputy Press Secretary and I�m sure she�s going to win�she usually does�and that means that Annabeth Schott and Donna Moss won�t be on my staff like I planned. My Chief Council, who I just hired this morning, just told me ten minutes ago that he�s decamped to some firm in New York for eight figures and a contract with the Devil himself, so that position needs to be filled again�Josh is pushing for some twenty-something Republican but I don�t know if she has the experience for the job.�
�Ainsley Hayes?� I asked.
�You know her?�
�We worked in the White House together. She was invaluable during the MS hearings,� I said.
I considered Ainsley as Chief Council. It was a little funny�I kept visualizing her carrying a box of doughnuts around like Tribbey did his cricket bat and Babbish did his gavel�but it fit.
�It�s a great push for bipartisanship, and once she realized that she doesn�t have to be terrified around you she�ll give you unadulterated honesty on anything you ask her opinion on�and probably a few things you don�t. She isn�t a litigator by trade, though, so we�ll want to make sure that the Deputies are comfortable in a courtroom.�
Santos nodded. �You know anything about the other Deputy that Josh hired? I can�t remember his name� it�s the same as some movie coroner from the late 1970�s.�
�Joe Quincy, sir. And I don�t know him. Donna is really the person to ask about things like that. I know the players but, as far as I know, Quincy is a lawyer who is a registered Republican. He�s not a political operative.�
�Alright. You should start staffing your office to help things along. The White House has been pretty much picked clean but there is a file cabinet full of resumes somewhere in this building. Josh started putting out feelers a few weeks before the election so we�ve got a good base, I think, but a lot of our people are lacking in experience.�
�I think anyone who has worked in the White House, including those who worked in the Oval Office, will tell you that ninety percent of what you need to know you�ll pick up as you go along,� I said honestly.