WASHINGTON – More power started to be vested in the White House staff in 1969, during Richard Nixon’s administration. Today, there are about twice as many full-time White House staff members as there were then.
Yet if more administrations handled domestic issues in the way the Nixon White House did in 1969, there would be many fewer complaints about powerful White House staffs.
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