Ron Klain, who recently stepped down as the White House chief of staff, discusses the lessons of the first two years of Joe Biden’s Presidency, and what might lie ahead for the President, Democrats, and American democracy.
, took the oath of office just two weeks after insurrectionists tried to thwart his ascension, and with his prospects for any significant legislation clouded even further by intense national division. And yet that climate—of imperfect arrival, of glory interrupted—was strangely suited to Biden, whose personal and political odyssey had given him a certain fatalism about life’s vicissitudes.
When I visited Klain in his office, in the West Wing, in late January, he had announced, a few hours earlier, that he was stepping down as chief of staff on February 8, 2023, the day after Biden was scheduled to give his second State of the Union address. Klain, at sixty-one, whirs with a low-key intensity.
The reason I ask about the political environment is, Joe Biden talks in some ways about how his origins owed a little bit to the political atmosphere in the house, how his Dad thought about politics, how other members of his family did. But it didn’t sound like that was something you were leaching from?A lot of student-council elections, I guess, that kind of thing. And then Georgetown, and here I worked on Capitol Hill all four years.
And then you guys stayed in touch, in one form or another, over the years. And then when did you next work for him again?for two years. When I finished, I came back as chief counsel of the Judiciary Committee from 1989 to 1992.
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