Another Georgetown University guy.
Note, it’s hard to see how Valerie Jarrett came to agree on letting him in the inner circle, but we should note...it’s a one-year clean-up episode. He’s going to teach them how to effectively run the White House...which it took five years for the team to realize that they had no real experience in DC, the art of negotiation, or conducting executive management. The staff have been in campaign mode for the whole five years....so he’s transitioning them to what they were supposed to be doing.
I bet the Democrats on the Hill shoe-horned him in. Podesta (among other things) was set to relaunch Priorities USA for Hillary’s run. The Dems want a seamless WH transition from Obama to Hillary.
Podesta will be frozen out like all the rest: Rahm, Daley, Lew. Remember when Daley was appointed Chief of Staff? How he was going to show Barry & Co. how a grownup should govern? How did that work out? Same thing here.