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...Biden on Friday announced that Cathy Russell, the head of the powerful White House personnel office, would leave to assume the role of executive director of UNICEF.... ...A longtime adviser to the Bidens, Russell served in the White House and State Department during the Obama administration. She was U.S. ambassador for global women’s issues under former President Obama, a role that Biden highlighted in Friday’s announcement....

You would expect that Bill and Hillary Clinton, of all people, would understand the importance of last impressions. After all, theirs has been the most superficial, image-conscious, poll-driven, photo-op presidency of all time. The contrived images of the Clinton years are indelible: their hand-in-hand waddle on the beach; Bill walking from church carrying a bible the size of a cereal box, the words "Holy Bible" pointed outward for everyone to see, as if in a commercial; Hillary's frilly pink press conference on Whitewater, where she mimicked the pose struck by Abe Lincoln in the portrait behind her, suggesting that she...