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The Ghosts of Daley’s Last White House Announcement

Bad memories, perhaps?

The last time William M. Daley was nominated for a White House job — commerce cecretary under President Bill Clinton — he fainted and toppled off the stage during a televised news conference.

Mr. Daley, who later said he had been up all night and hadn’t eaten out of nervousness, was fine. But the episode lives on in video, which has been making the rounds these past few days.

Mr. Daley took his spill in what was then called the Old Executive Office Building, across the street from the White House; it is now called the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. So it is perhaps no accident that the Obama White House changed the location of President Obama’s announcement that Mr. Daley will be his new chief of staff. His remarks on Thursday afternoon were originally set for the Eisenhower building, but the White House quickly sent out a revised schedule.

Mr. Obama will now make the announcement in the East Room of the White House.


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