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January 13, 2012 8:39 AM How Bill Daley Died a Death of a Thousand Cuts

By Jonathan Alter

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... a Chicago source informed me that Daley had no particular love for Obama. He backed Obama over Hillary Clinton in part to stay on the right side of Chicago’s blacks in anticipation of a now-abandoned plan to run for governor of Illinois.

When Rahm Emanuel left as White House chief of staff in the fall of 2010 to run for mayor of Chicago, he pushed the president hard to hire Daley as his replacement. Emanuel argued that his friend and fellow Chicagoan would help repair the White House’s relationship with the business community (a task Emanuel didn’t think Valerie Jarrett was handling well enough) and was the best man for Job One — getting Obama re-elected.

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