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| Meet The Man Who Can Basically Read |
| Meet The Man Who Can Basically Read President Obama's Mind
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 15-February-2016
12:28:39 PM |
| Outside the Oval Office is a small rectangular room with two side-by-side, nondescript wooden desks. In one sits President Barack Obama's personal secretary. In the other is Brian Mosteller, the man who sweats the small stuff so the president doesn't have to.
Few have even heard of Mosteller, but if you look closely at photographs taken inside the White House, you can often glimpse Mosteller at the edge of the frame, omnipresent. From his chair, he is the only person in the White House with a direct view of the president at his desk. No one gets in the Oval Office without going past him.
Mosteller's official title is director of Oval Office operations, although a more apt name might be anticipator in chief. When Obama is in Washington, every move the president makes, every person he meets and every meeting he attends has been carefully orchestrated by Mosteller.
He knows where Obama likes his water glass placed on the table at meetings and who he'd want to sit beside. He knows how he prefers the height of a lectern. He researches a head of state's favorite drink so the president can offer it. He readies Obama's remarks and sets them, open to the first page, wherever the president will be speaking. He tells Obama when a sock is bunched at his ankle or his shirt is wrinkled before an interview.
The president returned to Illinois last week to commemorate nine years since he announced his long-shot bid for the White House, a history-making moment of proportions few could have known then. There remain just a few people who were there in those very early days.
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